If you chance to live and move and have your being in that thin stratum in which the events that make the news transpire,--thinnerthan the paper on which it is printed,--then these things will fill the world for you; but if you soar above or dive below that plane, you cannot remember nor be reminded of them.

You must ascend a mountain to learn your relation to matter, and so to your own body, for it is at home there, though you are not.

Keep up the fires of thought, and all will go well.

One may be drunk with love without being any nearer to finding his mate.

I am not afraid that I shall exaggerate the value and significance of life, but that I shall not be up to the occasion which it is.

I am not afraid of praise, for I have practiced it on myself.

When I consider how, after sunset, the stars come out gradually in troops from behind the hills and woods, I confess that I could not have contrived a more curious and inspiring sight.