How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
We cannot walk through life on mountain peaks.
He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.
A man’s life may stagnate as literally as water may stagnate, and just as motion and direction are the remedy for one, so purpose and activity are the remedy for the other.
Happiness comes most to persons who seek it least and think least about it. It is not an object to be sought, it is a state to be induced. It must follow and not lead. It must overtake you, and not you overtake it.
Nature will not be conquered, but gives herself freely to her true lover – to him who revels with her, bathes in her seas, sails her rivers, camps in her woods, and with no mercenary ends, accepts all.
The art of nature is all in the direction of concealment.
The gift of perfume to a flower is a special grace like genius or like beauty, and never becomes common or cheap.
In winter the stars seem to have rekindled their fires, the moon achieves a fuller triumph, and the heavens wear a look of a more exalted simplicity.
Love is the measure of life; only so far as we love do we really live.
The place to observe nature is where you are.
A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
If you think you can do it, you can.
Do not despise your own place and hour. Every place is under the stars, every place is the center of the world.
The secret of happiness is something to do.
The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is ‘look under foot.’ You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.
It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.