“Habits wear more constantly and with greatest force than reason, which, when we have most need of it, is seldom fairly consulted, and more rarely obeyed
“A feeling of sadness and longing that is not akin to pain, and resembles sorrow only as the mist resembles the rain
“Trust no future, however pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act, act in the living present! Heart within and God overhead
“Not enjoyment, and not sorrow is our destined way, but to act that each tomorrow may find us further than today
“The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service
“How beautiful is youth! how bright it gleams with its illusions, aspirations, dreams! Book of beginnings, story without end, each maid a heroine, and each man a friend!
“Man may be considered as a superior species of animal that produces philosophies and poems in about the same way a silkworm produces their cocoons and bees their hives
“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.
“If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature; and the greatest of these, at least the most constant and always at hand, is nature
“Our misery is that we thirst so little for these sublime things, and so much for the mocking trifles of time and space