Our condition as men is risky and ticklish enough. One can not be sure of himself and his fortune an hour, but he may be whisked off into some pitiable or ridiculous plight.

Speak your latent conviction. . . Else tomorrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another.

I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.

A man cannot speak but he judges himself

A house is made with walls and beams; a home is built with love and dreams.

Man is physical as well as metaphysical, a thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors, and a misfit from the start.

In order for one to learn the important lessons of life, one must first overcome a fear each day.