The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.

I have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when nobody calls.

In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society.

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.

What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.

Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.

The bluebird carries the sky on his back.

If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.