Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.

Variety is a positive requisite even in the character of our food.

The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.

There is nothing that this age, from whatever standpoint we survey it, needs more, physically, intellectually, and morally, than thorough ventilation.

The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion, all in one.

It is a strange thing how little in general people know about the sky. It is the part of creation in which nature has done more for the sake of pleasing man.

Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.