I make it my business to extract from Nature what ever nutriment she can furnish me.... I milk the sky and the earth.

We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being.

A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.

On tops of mountains, as everywhere to hopeful souls, it is always morning.

They were pleasant spring days, in which the winter of man's discontent was thawing as well as the earth, and the life that had lain torpid began to stretch itself.

When one man has reduced a fact of the imagination to be a fact to his understanding, I foresee that all men will at length establish their lives on that basis.

I am not afraid of praise, for I have practiced it on myself.