You can fall, but you must not lie down.

It's necessary to have time to think, to be bored in order to be creative.

Slow down, you're moving too fast.

The self, we shall say, can never be Seen with a disguise, and never be seen without one.

Neither spoke; each knew the other's thoughts, and knew that they were his own.

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

The heart and soul are quicker than the eye and ear.

Religion is everywhere. It is in the mind, in the heart, in the love you put into what you do.

We are not here to judge from good and bad but to do the things that are right.

Chaos is an incomplete vision of a larger order.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God.

Among animals, one has a sense of humor. Humor saves a few steps, it saves years.

Surely there is something in the unruffled calm of nature that overawes our little anxieties and doubts: the sight of a deep-blue sky, and the clustering stars above, seem to impart a quiet to the mind.

And this our life, exempt from haunt, Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in stones, and good in everything.

The youth of nature is contagious.

Passions are the winds which fill the sails of the vessel; sometimes they sink it; but without them it would be impossible to make way.

It is easier to steer a moving object than a stationary one.

Where there's a will, there's a way.

Yes! Yes! Give me this glorious ocean life, this salt-sea life, this briny, foamy life, when the sea neighs and snorts, and you breathe the very breath that the great whales respire! Let me roll around the globe, let me rock upon the sea, let me race and pant out my life with an eternal breeze astern and an endless sea before!