A fly is as untamable as a hyena.

A man's personal defects will commonly have with the rest of the world precisely that importance which they have to himself. If he makes light of them, so will other men.

Build, therefore, your own world. As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold it's great proportions.

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

The charm of fine manners is music and sculpture and picture to many who do not pretend to appreciation of these arts.

When I go into the garden with a spade and dig a bed I feel such an exhilaration and health that I discover that I have been defrauding myself all this time in letting others do for me what I should have done with my own hands.

Immitation is suicide.