My eye is educated to discover anything on the ground, as chestnuts, etc. It is probably wholesomer to look at the ground much than at the heavens.

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

What is the singing of birds, or any natural sound, compared with the voice of one we love.

Life is so short that it is not wise to take roundabout ways, nor can we spend much time in waiting.... We have not got half-way to dawn yet.

You cannot hear music and noise at the same time.

Amid a world of noisy, shallow actors it is noble to stand aside and say, 'I will simply be.

In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society.