As for solitude, I cannot understand how certain people seek to lay claim to intellectual stature, nobility of soul and strength of character, yet have not the slightest feeling for seclusion; for solitude, I maintain, when joined with a quiet contemplation of nature, a serene and conscious faith in creation and the Creator, and a few vexations from outside is the only school for a mind of lofty endowment.

In the end we are all separate: our stories, no matter how similar, come to a fork and diverge. We are drawn to each other because of our similarities, but it is our differences we must learn to respect.

Everything is both simpler than we can imagine and more entangled than we can conceive.

Don't say that you want to give, but go ahead and give! You'll never catch up with a mere hope.

Of all thieves, fools are the worst; they rob you of time and temper.

Nature has neither core nor skin: she’s both at once outside and in.

Limitation of aims is the mother of wisdom and the secret of achievement.