The three-o'-clock in the morning courage, which Bonaparte thought was the rarest.

The true harvest of my life is intangible - a little star dust caught, a portion of the rainbow I have clutched.

All health and success does me good, however far off and withdrawn it may appear; all disease and failure helps to make me sad anddoes me evil, however much sympathy it may have with me or I with it.

Be not anxious to avoid poverty. In this way the wealth of the universe may be securely invested.

All men are really most attracted by the beauty of plain speech, and they even write in a florid style in imitation of this. Theyprefer to be misunderstood rather than to come short of its exuberance.

I have a room all to myself; it is nature.

I wish to speak a word for Nature, for absolute Freedom and Wildness, as contrasted with a Freedom and Culture merely civil, - to regard man as an inhabitant, or a part and parcel of Nature, rather than a member of society.