Religion is to do right. It is to love, it is to serve, it is to think, it is to be humble.

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.

If we will take the good we find, asking no questions, we shall have heaping measures. The great gifts are not got by analysis. Everything good is on the highway. The middle region of our being is the temperate zone.

The solitary knows the essence of the thought, the scholar in society only its fair face.

A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree; or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at every attitude.

Of course, he who has put forth his total strength in fit actions, has the richest return of wisdom.

The imaginative faculty of the soul must be fed with objects immense and eternal.