I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life.

There should always be some flowering and maturing of the fruits of nature in the cooking process.

For in the wood these golden days Some leaf obeys its Maker's call. And through their hollow aisles it plays With delicate touch the prelude of the Fall.

Morning glory is the best name, it always refreshes me to see it.

There is something servile in the habit of seeking after a law which we may obey. We may study the laws of matter at and for our convenience, but a successful life knows no law.

Drive a nail home and clinch it so faithfully that you can wake up in the night and think of your work with satisfaction - a work at which you would not be ashamed to invoke the muse.

No people ever lived by cursing their fathers, however great a curse their fathers might have been to them.