"Summer is more wooing and seductive, more versatile and human, appeals to the affections and the sentiments, and fosters inquiry and the art impulse. Winter is of a more heroic cast, and addresses the..."
- John Burroughs
"You can fail many times, but you're not a failure until you begin to blame somebody else."
"Man takes root at his feet, and at best he is no more than a potted plant in his house or carriage till he has established communication with the soil by the loving and magnetic touch of his soles to ..."
"The kingdom of heaven in not a place but a state of mind."
"How beautifully the leaves grow old. How full of light and colour are their last days."
"Serene I fold my hands and wait."
"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 y..."
"Few persons realize how much of their happiness such as it is is dependent upon their work."
"I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think all the walks I want to take all the books I want to read and all the friends I want to see."
"I was born with a chronic anxiety about the weather."