Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Learn from it... tomorrow is a new day.

Nature is no spendthrift, but takes the shortest way to her ends.

When the act of reflection takes place in the mind, when we look at ourselves in the light of thought, we discover that our life is embosomed in beauty.

In good company, the individuals merge their egotism into a social soul exactly co-extensive with the several consciousnesses there present.

Men such as they are, very naturally seek money or power; and power because it is as good as money.

"In the woods we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life~~no disgrace, no calamity (leaving me my eyes), which nature cannot repair."

If the individuals who compose the purest circles of aristocracy in Europe, the guarded blood of centuries, should pass in review,in such manner as that we could, at leisure, and critically inspect their behavior, we might find no gentleman, and no lady; for, although excellent specimens of courtesy and high-breeding would gratify us in the assemblage, in the particulars, we should detect offence. Because, elegance comes of no breeding, but of birth.