To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

I am thankful for small mercies. I compared notes with one of my friends who expect everything of the universe, and is disappointed when anything is less than the best, and I found that I begin at the other extreme, expecting nothing, and am always full of thanks for moderate good. . . . If we will take the good we find, . . . we shall have heaping measures. . . .

A moment is a concentrated eternity.

Wherever a man comes, there comes revolution. The old is for slaves.

Society always consists in the greatest part, of young and foolish persons.

I am always insincere, as always knowing there are other moods.

A walk in the woods is only an exalted dream.