Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiation - creation - there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans.

Doubt grows with knowledge.

Alas! how much there is in education, and in our social institutions, to prepare us and our children for insanity.

Every bird has its decoy, and every man is led and misled in his own peculiar way.

A plant is like a self-willed man, out of whom we can obtain all which we desire, if we will only treat him his own way.

Each traveler should know what he has to see, and what properly belongs to him, on a journey.

Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.