What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think.

The eye is the first circle; the horizon which it forms is the second; and throughout nature this primary figure is repeated without end.

In these divine pleasures permitted to me of walks in the June night under moon and stars, I can put my life as a fact before me and stand aloof from its honor and shame.

Respect the child. Wait and see the new product of Nature. Nature loves analogies, but not repetitions. Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.

Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.

At the gates of the forest, the surprised man of the world is forced to leave his city estimates of great and small, wise and foolish.

Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first.