It is pleasant to have been to a place the way a river went.

There are some things which a man never speaks of, which are much finer kept silent about. To the highest communications we only lend a silent ear.

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.

I am a happy camper so I guess I’m doing something right. Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder.

Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?

The soul grows by subtraction, not addition.

I could not help being struck with the foolishness of that institution which treated me as if I were mere flesh and blood and bones, to be locked up.