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"All mankind love a lover."

"Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience."

"Earth laughs in flowers."

"Nature always wears the colors of the spirit."

"Plants are the young of the world, vessels of health and vigor; but they grope ever upward towards consciousness; the trees are imperfect men, and seem to bemoan their imprisonment, rooted in the ground."

"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."

"Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world."

"All life is an experiment."

"It is not length of life, but depth of life."

"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."

"Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss."

"Science does not know its debt to imagination."

"Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science."

"Success: To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children, to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded!"

"It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them."

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal, that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought, which men never put off, and may deal with him with the simplicity and wholeness with which one chemical atom meets another.

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, while he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere.

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

"We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing."

"Pictures must not be too picturesque."

"Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think."

"Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams."

"Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference."

"The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work."

Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand.

"No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure."

"As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control, that things will flow as they will, and that you will flow with them, to your great delight and benefit."

"Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words."

"It struck me that the movies had spent more than half a century saying, "They lived happily ever after" and the following quarter-century warning that they'll be lucky to make it through the weekend. Possibly now we are now entering a third era in which the movies will be sounding a note of cautious optimism: You know it just might work."