But do your work, and I shall know you. Do your work, and you shall reinforce yourself.

We are wiser than we know.

Teach me your mood, O patient stars. Who climb each night, the ancient sky. leaving on space no shade, no scars, no trace of age, no fear to die.

Nature forever puts a premium on reality. What is done for effect is seen to be done for effect; what is done for love is felt to be done for love. A man inspires affection and honor because he was not lying in wait for these.

The intellect is vagabond, and our system of education fosters restlessness. Our minds travel when our bodies are forced to stay at home. We imitate; and what is imitation but the travelling of the mind?

I grieve that grief can teach me nothing, nor carry me one step into real nature.

Our first mistake is the belief that the circumstance gives the joy which we give to the circumstance.