Nature never hurries: atom by atom, little by little, she achieves her work. The lesson one learns from yachting or planting is the manners of Nature; patience with the delays of wind and sun, delays of the seasons, bad weather, excess or lack of water.

When a man says to me, "I have the intensest love of nature," at once I know that he has none.

Intellect is void of affection and sees an object as it stands in the light of science, cool and disengaged. The intellect goes out of the individual, floats over its own personality, and regards it as a fact, and not as I and mine.

Success goes thus invariably with a certain plus or positive power: an ounce of power must balance an ounce of weight.

Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.

An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man.

When I was praised I lost my time, for instantly I turned around to look at the work I had thought slightly of, and that day I made nothing new.