Blessed are they who never read a newspaper, for they shall see Nature, and through her, God.

I have no time to be in a hurry.

If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment. [Like they say, 'Every cloud has a silver lining'...so if you are patient, expect, anticipate, look and work for some good to come from the cloud, you will be rewarded eventually!]

Work your vein till it is exhausted, or conducts you to a broader one.

While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings.

A lake is a landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is Earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.

When my legs begin to move, the thoughts begin to flow.