Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea.

I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.

The interminable forests should become graceful parks, for use and delight.

Imitation cannot go above its model.

Who looks upon a river in a meditative hour and is not reminded of the flux of all things?

Self-sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow. Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect. The louder he talked of his honesty, the quicker we counted the silverware.

Every wall is a door.