The efforts which we make to escape from our destiny only serve to lead us into it.

To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty.

I am become a transparent eyeball.

After you have pumped your brains for thoughts and verses, there is a better poetry hinted in whistling a tune on your walk.

Self trust is the essence of heroism.

The earth is a machine which yields almost gratuitous service to every application of intellect. Every plant is a manufacturer of soil. In the stomach of the plant development begins. The tree can draw on the whole air, the whole earth, on all the rolling main. The plant is all suction-pipe,--imbibing from the ground by its root, from the air by its leaves, with all its might.

You need someone who can inspire you to be what you know you can be