A man receives only what he is ready to receive, whether physically or intellectually or morally, as animals conceive at certain seasons their kind only. We hear and apprehend only what we already half know.

By my intimacy with nature I find myself withdrawn from man. My interest in the sun and the moon, in the morning and the evening, compels me to solitude.

Being is the great explainer.

As a man thinks of himself, so he is.

First, there is the power of the Wind, constantly exerted over the globe... Here is an almost incalculable power at our disposal, yet how trifling the use we make of it.

Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg, by the side of which more will be laid.

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.