Cultivate all your faculties; you must either use them or lose them

We must be careful what we read, and not, like the sailors of Ulysses, take bags of wind for sacks of treasure.

Earth and Sky, Woods and Fields, Lakes and Rivers, the Mountain and the Sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.

Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.

A crowd is not necessarily company, but neither need it necessarily prevent thought or disturb peace of mind.

Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.

Many of the greatest men have owed their success to industry rather than to cleverness.