The most important lesson that man can learn from life, is not that there is pain in this world, but that it is possible for him to transmute it into joy.

Whatever we understand and enjoy in human products instantly becomes ours, wherever they might have their origin... Let me feel with unalloyed gladness that all the great glories of man are mine.

The trees come up to my window like the yearning voice of the dumb earth

My day is done, and I am like a boat drawn on the beach, listening to the dance-music of the tide in the evening.

I thought that my voyage had come to its end at the last limit of my power, that the path before me was closed, that provisions were exhausted, and the time come to take shelter in a silent obscurity, but I find that thy will knows no end in me, and when old words die out on the tongue, new melodies break forth from the heart, and where the old tracks are lost, new country is revealed with its wonders.

The truth comes as conqueror only because we have lost the art of receiving it as guest.

Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.