Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.

Do not make children cross-eyed, by having hair hang about their foreheads, where they see it continually.

It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.

We first crush people to the earth, and then claim the right of trampling on them forever, because they are prostrate.

The cure for all ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word 'love.' It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

That man's best works should be such bungling imitations of Nature's infinite perfection, matters not much; but that he should make himself an imitation, this is the fact which Nature moans over, and deprecates beseechingly. Be spontaneous, be truthful, be free, and thus be individuals! is the song she sings through warbling birds, and whispering pines, and roaring waves, and screeching winds.