Shall a man go and hang himself because he belongs to the race of pygmies, and not be the biggest pygmie that he can? Let everyone mind his own business, and endeavor to be what he was made

Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb nail.

Today...the bluebirds, old and young, have revisited their box, as if they would fain repeat the summer without intervention of winter, if Nature would let them.

For if we take the ages into our account, may there not be a civilization going on among brutes as well as men?

In the planting of the seeds of most trees, the best gardeners do no more than follow Nature, though they may not know it.

All the past is here, present to be tried; let it approve itself if it can.

As to conforming outwardly and living your own life inwardly, I do not think much of that.