If you have only two or three things that you can enjoy and they are things which time and decay may remove from you, what are you going to do in old age?

All human affairs follow nature's great analogue, the growth of vegetation. There are three periods of growth in every plant. The first, and slowest, is the invisible growth by the root; the second and much accelerated is the visible growth by the stem; but when root and stem have gathered their forces, there comes the third period, in which the plant quickly flashes into blossom and rushes into fruit.

Only have enough of little virtues and common fidelities, and you need not mourn because you are neither a hero nor a saint.

The dog is the god of frolic.

Rain! whose soft architectural hands have power to cut stones, and chisel to shapes of grandeur the very mountains.

I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.

I never know how to worship until I know how to love.