We soon get through with Nature. She excites an expectation which she cannot satisfy. The merest child which has rambled into a copsewood dreams of a wildness so wild and strange and inexhaustible as Nature can never show him.

One man lies in his words, and gets a bad reputation; another in his manners, and enjoys a good one.

We are constantly invited to be who we are.

The future is too soon the past. So make perseverance your excellence and go confidently in the direction of your dreams.

Friendship takes place between those who have an affinity for one another, and is a perfectly natural and inevitable result. No professions nor advances will avail.... It is a drama in which the parties have no part to act.

Life is so short that it is not wise to take roundabout ways, nor can we spend much time in waiting.... We have not got half-way to dawn yet.

There are various, nay, incredible faiths; why should we be alarmed at any of them? What man believes, God believes.