The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.

I never drew a picture of anything that was before me but always from fancy, a sure sign of the absence of artistic eyesight; and I illustrated my lack of real feeling for art by a very early speech: 'Mama,' said I, 'I have drawed a man. Shall I draw his soul now?

Make the most of the best and the least of the worst.

Do not measure success by today's harvest. Measure success by the seeds you plant today.

Be what you are, and become what you are capable of becoming.

The world has no room for cowards. We must all be ready somehow to toil, to suffer, to die.

It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.