Resist much, obey little.

I henceforth tread the world, chaste, temperate, an early riser, a steady grower.

My rule has been, so far as I could have any rule (I could have no cast-iron rule) - my rule has been, to write what I have to say the best way I can - then lay it aside - taking it up again after some time and reading it afresh - the mind new to it. If there's no jar in the new reading, well and good - that's sufficient for me.

A man is a great thing upon the earth and through eternity; but every jot of the greatness of man is unfolded out of woman.

Why who makes much of a miracle? As to me I know nothing else but miracles, whether they be animals feeding in the fields, Or, birds, or the wonderfulness of insects in the air, Or the wonderfulness of the sundown, or of stars shining so quiet and bright, Or the exquisite delicate thin curve of the new moon in spring; These, with the rest, one and all, are to me, miracles.

I and this mystery, here we stand.

I find no sweeter fat than sticks to my own bones.