I am a happy camper so I guess I’m doing something right. Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder.

The discoveries which we make abroad are special and particular; those which we make at home are general and significant. The further off, the nearer the surface. The nearer home, the deeper.

Men must speak English who can write Sanskrit; they must speak a modern language who write, perchance, an ancient and universal one.

In Canada an ordinary New England house would be mistaken for the château, and while every village here contains at least severalgentlemen or "squires," there is but one to a seigniory.

Let the beautiful laws prevail. Let us not weary ourselves by resisting them.

Resign yourself to the influence of the earth.

Morning is when I am awake and there is a dawn in me.