It's the beauty within us that makes it possible for us to recognize the beauty around us. The question is not what you look at but what you see.

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

The most primitive places left with us are the swamps, where the spruce still grows shaggy with usnea.

With wisdom we shall learn liberality.

Furniture! Thank God, I can sit and I can stand without the aid of a furniture warehouse.

Our thoughts are epochs in our lives; all else is but as a journal of the winds that blow while we are here.

So thoroughly and sincerely are we compelled to live, reverencing our life, and denying the possibility of change. This is the only way, we say; but there are as many ways as there can be drawn radii from one centre. All change is a miracle to contemplate; but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant.