I believe in the forest, and in the meadow, and in the night in which the corn grows.
I believe that water is the only drink for a wise man.
A sentence should be read as if its author, had he held a plough instead of a pen, could have drawn a furrow deep and straight to the end.
All change is a miracle to contemplate, but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant.
There will never be a really free and enlightened state until the state comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived.
Read not the Times, read the Eternities.
It’s not worth our while to let our imperfections disturb us always.
I can alter my life by altering my attitude. He who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers.
All men recognize the right of revolution; that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and to resist, the government, when its tyranny or its inefficiency are great and unendurable.
The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly.
Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour.
I have an immense appetite for solitude, like an infant for sleep, and if I don’t get enough for this year, I shall cry all the next.
Truth strikes us from behind and in the dark, as well as from before and in broad daylight.
Life in us is like the water in a river.
Kindness to children, love for children, goodness to children – these are the only investments that never fail.
A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener. So our prospects brighten on the influx of better thoughts. We should be blessed if we lived in the present always, and took advantage of every accident that befell us.
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent.
Be resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.
He who hears the rippling of rivers in these degenerate days will not utterly despair.
Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live.