One is wise to cultivate the tree that bears fruit in our soul.

It takes a man of genius to travel in his own country, in his native village; to make any progress between his door and his gate.

The flowers of the apple are perhaps the most beautiful of any tree's, so copious and so delicious to both sight and scent.

If you look over a list of medicinal recipes in vogue in the last century, how foolish and useless they are seen to be! And yet we use equally absurd ones with faith today.

As the stars looked to me when I was a shepherd in Assyria, they look to me now as a New-Englander.

We can never safely exceed the actual facts in our narratives. Of pure invention, such as some suppose, there is no instance. To write a true work of fiction even is only to take leisure and liberty to describe some things more exactly as they are.

Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live.