“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense”.

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”

“Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.”

“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.”

“I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and dead institutions.”

“I cannot remember the books I’ve read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”

“Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.”