Nature suffers nothing to remain in her kingdom which cannot help itself.

Genial manners are good, and power of accommodation to any circumstance, but the high prize of life, the crowning fortune of a man is to be born with a bias to some pursuit, which finds him in employment and happiness, -- whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statutes, or songs. I doubt not this was the meaning of Socrates, when he pronounced artists the only truly wise, as being actually, not apparently so.

Stay at home in your mind. Don't recite other people's opinions.

The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later.

Men succeed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for their victories.

In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows.

Miracle comes to the miraculous, not to the arithmetician.