The secret of achievement is to hold a picture of a successful outcome in mind.

When our life ceases to be inward and private, conversation degenerates into mere gossip.

My eye is educated to discover anything on the ground, as chestnuts, etc. It is probably wholesomer to look at the ground much than at the heavens.

Every people have gods to suit their circumstances.

A man sees only what concerns him.... How much more, then, it requires different intentions of the eye and of the mind to attend to different departments of knowledge! How differently the poet and the naturalist look at objects!

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

Such a man has some right to fish, and I love to see nature carried out in him.