Perseverance is a silent power that grows irresistibly greater with time.

There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

If it is the greatest truth that you seek, the plants can direct you.

Dispel not, the happy delusions of children.

A man's name is not like a mantle which merely hangs about him...but a perfectly fitting garment, which, like the skin, has grown over him, at which one cannot rake and scrape without injuring the man himself.

We are the slaves of objects around us, and appear little or important according as these contract or give us room to expand.

What one has wished for in youth, in old age one has in abundance.