“Follow your genius closely enough, and it will not fail to show you a fresh prospect every hour.”

“No man ever followed his genius til it misled him.”

“Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.”

“A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener. So our prospects brighten on the influx of better thoughts. We should be blessed if we lived in the present always, and took advantage of every accident that befell us.”

“Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour.”

“If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.”

“The trees and shrubs rear white arms to the sky on every side; and where were walls and fences, we see forms stretching in frolic gambols across the dusky landscape, as if Nature had strewn her fresh designs over the fields by night as models for man's art.”