“We live a short period of time in this world, but we live it according to the laws of eternal life.”

“I do not know how to distinguish between waking life and a dream. Are we not always living the life that we imagine we are?”

“Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life?”

“When it is time to die, let us not discover that we never lived.”

“On the death of a friend, we should consider that the fates through confidence have devolved on us the task of a double living, that we have henceforth to fulfill the promise of our friend's life also, in our own, to the world.”

“If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.”

“Every child begins the world again, to some extent, and loves to stay outdoors, even in wet and cold. It plays house, as well as horse, having an instinct for it...At last we know not what it is to live in the open air, and our lives are domestic in more senses than we think.”