Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

Solitude is not measured by the miles of space that intervene between a man and his fellows.

It is not so important that many should be good as you, as that there be some absolute goodness somewhere; for that will leaven the whole lump.

I, on my side, require of every writer, first or last, a simple and sincere account of his own life, and not merely what he has heard of other men's lives; some such account as he would send to his kindred from a distant land; for if he has lived sincerely, it must have been in a distant land to me.

I learned what it is to live in the open air, and I learned that our lives are domestic in more sense than we think.

The dry grasses are not dead for me. A beautiful form has as much life at one season as another.

Improve every opportunity to be melancholy.