"I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?"

"There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar I love not Man the less, but Nature more."

"I slept and dreamt that life was beauty I woke and found that life was duty."

"The best prophet of the future is the past."

"To insure peace of mind ignore the rules and regulations."

"Little islands of human happiness, peace, and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history that I'm not even sure we can draw lessons from them."

"An hour spent in deep contemplation is worth a year of unguided wandering. For where clarity resides, peace inevitably follows."

"Ethics is not a doctrine written in marble, but a daily standard lived in conscience. For where clarity resides, peace inevitably follows."