If you are chosen town clerk, forsooth, you cannot go to Tierra del Fuego this summer; but you may go to the land of infernal fire nevertheless.

If you're familiar with a principle you don't have to be familiar with all of its applications.

Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be.

Perfect alchemists I keep who can transmute substances without end, and thus the corner of my garden is an inexhaustible treasure-chest. Here you can dig, not gold, but the value which gold merely represents; and there is no Signor Blitz about it.

The flowers of the apple are perhaps the most beautiful of any tree's, so copious and so delicious to both sight and scent.

We are ashamed of our fear; for we know that a righteous man would not suspect danger nor incur any. Wherever a man feels fear, there is an avenger.

I stand in awe of my body.