The youth may build or plant or sail, only let him not be hindered from doing that which he tells me he would like to do.

Enemies publish themselves. They declare war. The friend never declares his love.

A journal is a repository for all those fragmentary ideas and odd scraps of information that might otherwise be lost and which some day might lead to more "harmonious compositions."

I know of no redeeming qualities in myself but a sincere love for some things, and when I am reproved I fall back on to this ground.

It often happens that a man develops a deeper love and friendship with his pet cat or dog than he does with most of the other humans in his life.

I fear chiefly lest my expression may not be extravagant enough, may not wander far enough beyond the narrow limit of my daily experience, so as to be adequate to the truth of which I have been convinced.

What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.