That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not tha... - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs."

"To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom."

"You become what you think about all day long."

"Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet."

"A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature."