We should read history as little critically as we consider the landscape, and be more interested by the atmospheric tints and various lights and shades which the intervening spaces create than by its groundwork and composition.

be yourself- not your idea of what you think somebody else's idea of yourself should be.

It is reasonable that a man should be something worthier at the end of the year than he was at the beginning.

We have need to be earth-born as well as heaven-born, gegeneis, as was said of the Titans of old, or in a better sense than they.

You cannot receive a shock unless you have an electric affinity for that which shocks you.

Why do you ever mend your clothes, unless that, wearing them, you may mend your ways. Let us sing.

Within the memory of many of my townsmen the road near which my house stands resounded with the laugh and gossip of inhabitants, and the woods which border it were notched and dotted here and there with their little gardens and dwellings, though it was then much more shut in by the forest than now.