Thought Is The Seed Of Action.

Nature Is No Spendthrift, But Takes The Shortest Way To Her Ends.

Let The River Roll Which Way It Will, Cities Will Rise On Its Banks.

I Am Thankful For Small Mercies. I Compared Notes With One Of My Friends Who Expect Everything Of The Universe, And Is Disappointed When Anything Is Less Than The Best, And I Found That I Begin At The Other Extreme, Expecting Nothing, And Am Always Full Of Thanks For Moderate Good. . . . If We Will Take The Good We Find, . . . We Shall Have Heaping Measures. . . .

The Two Terrors That Discourage Creativity And Creative Living Are Fear Of Public Opinion And Undue Reverence For One's Own Consistency.

He Cannot Be Happy And Strong Until He Too Lives With Nature In The Present, Above Time.