Here I am thirty-four years old, and yet my life is almost wholly unexpanded. How much time is in the germ! There is such an interval between my ideal and the actual in many circumstances that I may say I am unborn.

What wisdom, what warning can prevail against gladness? There is no law so strong that a little gladness may not transgress.

Men rush to California and Australia as if the true gold were to be found in that direction but that is to go to the very opposite extreme to where it lies. They go prospecting farther and farther away from the true lead, and are most unfortunate when they think themselves most successful.

Associate reverently, and as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts.

When the farmer has got his house, he may not be the richer but the poorer for it, and it be the house that has got him... a man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.

Our science, so called, is always more barren and mixed with error than our sympathies.

I come to my solitary woodland walk as the homesick go home.