A new degree of intellectual power seems cheap at any price.

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.

All the mistakes I make arise from forsaking my own station and trying to see the object from another person's point of view.

Always do what you are afraid to do.

Dear to us are those who love us... but dearer are those who reject us as unworthy, for they add another life; they build a heaven before us whereof we had not dreamed, and thereby supply to us new powers out of the recesses of the spirit, and urge us to new and unattempted performances.

Circumstance does not make the man. Circumstance reveals man to himself.

The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is, that it scatters your force.