"Small herbs have grace, great weeds do..." - Quote by William Shakespeare

“Do as the heavens have done, forget your evil; With them forgive yourself.”

“Be not thy tongue thy own shame's orator.”

“Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.”

“Bravery and courage is walking into pain and knowing that something better is on the other side”

“The discipline of suffering, of great suffering - do you not know that it is this discipline alone that has produced all the elevations of humanity so far?”

“Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because life is sweet and they are growing.”

“We need the tonic of the wilderness, to wade sometimes in the marsh where the bitten and the meadow hen lurk, and hear the booming of the snipe; to smell the whispering sedge where only some wilder and more solitary fowl builds her nest, and the mink crawls with its belly close to the ground.”

“I love to see that Nature is so rife with life that myriads can be afforded to be sacrificed and suffered to prey on one another; that tender organizations can be so serenely squashed out of existence like pulp, - tadpoles which herons gobble up, and tortoises and toads run over in the road; and that sometimes it has rained flesh and blood! With the liability to accident, we must see how little account is to be made of it.”

“Whether the flower looks better in the nosegay than in the meadow where it grew and we had to wet our feet to get it! Is the scholastic air any advantage?”