Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius the stern friend.

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

To feel the intimacy of brothers is a marvelous thing in life.

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

Keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach, when feeling out of sight for the ends of being and ideal grace.

Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad.

Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living.

If you have no time for prayer and meditation, you will have lots of time for sickness and trouble.

Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.

Thus not only does democracy make every man forget his ancestors, but it hides his descendants and separates his contemporaries from him; it throws him back forever upon himself alone and threatens in the end to confine him entirely within solitude of his own heart.

Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for. Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us.

In wilderness is the preservation of the world.

For one wild, glad moment we snapped the chain that binds us to earth, and joining hands with the winds we felt ourselves divine.

Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.

A place for everything and everything in its place.

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

Nothing is more precious than being in the present moment. Fully alive, fully aware.