How fitting to have every day in a vase of water on your table the wildflowers of the season which are just blossoming! - Henry David Thoreau

Be resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.

It is worth the while to walk in wet weather; the earth and leaves are strewn with pearls. What you can recall of a walk on the second day will differ from what you remember on the first day, as the mountain chain differs in appearance, looking back the next day, from the aspect it wore when you were at its base, or generally, as any view changes to one who is journeying amid mountains when he has increased the distance.

We are apt to imagine that this hubbub of Philosophy, Literature, and Religion, which is heard in pulpits, lyceums, and parlors, vibrates through the universe, and is as catholic a sound as the creaking of the earth's axle. But if a man sleeps soundly, he will forget it all between sunset and dawn.