Good deeds are no less good because their object is unworthy.

be yourself- not your idea of what you think somebody else's idea of yourself should be.

And so the seasons went rolling on into summer, as one rambles into higher and higher grass.

I have found it to be the most serious objection to coarse labors long continued, that they compelled me to eat and drink coarsely also.

Homer and Shakespeare and Milton and Marvell and Wordsworth are but the rustling of leaves and crackling of twigs in the forest, and there is not yet the sound of any bird. The Muse has never lifted up her voice to sing.

Truly, our greatest blessings are very cheap.

The only fruit which even much living yields seems to be often only some trivial success,--the ability to do some slight thing better. We make conquest only of husks and shells for the most part,--at least apparently,--but sometimes these are cinnamon and spices, you know.