Literature is an investment of genius which has dividends to all subsequent times

Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all - that has been my religion

Happiness comes most to persons who seek her least, and think least about it. It is not an object to be sought; it is a state to be induced. It must follow and not lead. It must overtake you, and not you overtake it

Temperament lies behind mood behind will, lies the fate of character. Then behind both, the influence of family the tyranny of culture and finally the power of climate and environment and we are free, only to the extent we rise above these

I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral

I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see

There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad

If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature and the greatest of these, at least the most constant and always at hand, is nature

How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days

One can only learn his powers of action by action, and his powers of thought by thinking