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.

What matters most is not what is behind us or before us, but what is within us.

The greatest discoveries are those that shed light unto ourselves.

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

The two terrors that discourage creativity and creative living are fear of public opinion and undue reverence for one's own consistency.

It was a pleasure and a privilege to walk with him [H.D. Thoreau]. He knew the country like a fox or a bird, and passed through it as freely by paths of his own.

No man gains credit for his cowardly courtesies.