People only see what they are prepared to see. If you look for what is good and what you can be grateful for you will find it everywhere.

The poor and the low have their way of expressing the last facts of philosophy as well as you. "Blessed be nothing," and "The worse things are, the better they are," are proverbs which express the transcendentalism of common life.

It really is considered one of the blessings of previous mates which you could manage being silly with them.

Skill to do comes of doing.

A man should not be a silkworm; nor a nation a tent of caterpillars.

God enters by a private door into every individual.

Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles at twilight, under a clouded sky, without having in my thoughts any occurrence of special good fortune, I have enjoyed perfect exhilaration. I am glad to the brink of fear.