"Nothing is really small; whoever is open..." - Quote by Victor Hugo

“If you want to civilize a man, begin with his grandmother.”

“A great artist is a great man in a great child.”

“A poet is a world enclosed in a man.”

“Nature would not appear so rich, the profusion so rich, if we knew a use for everything.”

“A dog came to my door, so I gave him a bone, the dog took the bone into the back yard and buried it. I'm going to go plant a tree there, with bones on it, then the dog will come back and say, "Shoot! It worked! I must distribute these bones equally for I have a green paw!"”

“I come to my solitary woodland walk as the homesick go home. I thus dispose of the superfluous and see things as they are, grand and beautiful.”

“Value dwells not in particular will;It holds his estimate and dignityAs well wherein 'tis precious of itselfAs in the prizer.”

“He thought her beautiful, believed her impeccably wise; dreamed of her, wrote poems to her, which, ignoring the subject, she corrected in red ink.”

“They classify my motivational speeches as rants...”