What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.

Sometimes hath the brightest day a cloud; and after summer evermore succeeds barren winter, with his wrathful nipping cold: so cares and joys abound, as seasons fleet.

Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature.

To appreciate the beauty of a snowflake, it is necessary to stand out in the cold.

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing it is not fish they are after.

Waves are inspiring not because they rise and fall, but because each time they fall they never fail to rise again.

In wilderness is the preservation of the world.

Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves.

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

Let us affirm what seems to be the truth, that, whether one is or is not, one and the others in relation to themselves and one another, all of them, in every way, are and are not, and appear to be and appear not to be.

All that is important in this moment is movement. Make the movement vital and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused.

Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.

Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration.

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. Each of us carries his own life-form—an indeterminable form which cannot be superseded by any other.

Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights.