I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual. It is surprising how contented one can be with nothing definite - only a sense of existence. Well, anything for variety.

Nature refuses to sympathize with our sorrow. She seems not to have provided for, but by a thousand contrivances against it.

A perfectly healthy sentence, it is true, is extremely rare. For the most part we miss the hue and fragrance of the thought; as if we could be satisfied with the dews of the morning or evening without their colors, or the heavens without their azure.

The sun is but a morning star.

Let every man make known what kind of government would command his respect, and that will be one step toward obtaining it.

I would give all the wealth of the world, and all the deeds of all the heroes, for one true vision.

What avails it that another loves you, if he does not understand you? Such love is a curse.