All infractions of love and equity in our social relations are ... punished by fear.

I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I'm not afraid of falling into my inkpot.

Skepticism is slow suicide.

Though we travel the world over to find beauty, we must carry it with us or we find it not . . . The difference between landscape and landscape is small, but there is a great difference in beholders.

The first in time and the first in importance of the influences upon the mind is that of nature. Every day, the sun; and after sunset, night and her stars. Ever the winds blow; ever the grass grows.

A skilful man reads his dreams for his selfknowledge; yet not the details, but the quality.

The good writer seems to be writing about himself, but has his eye always on that thread of the Universe which runs through himself and all things.