Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much. |
Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures. |
Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others. |
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, you shall begin it well and serenely... |
Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance. |
Flowers are the earth laughing. |
Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world. |
For each thorn, there's a rosebud... for each twilight — a dawn... for each trial — the strength to carry on, For each stormcloud — a rainbow... for each shadow — the sun... for each parting — sweet memories when sorrow is done. |
For every benefit you receive a tax is levied. |
For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness. |
For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind. |
For every thing you have missed, you have gained something else; and for every thing you gain, you lose something |
For everything you have missed you have gained something |
For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else. |
For if in any manner we can stimulate this instinct, new passages are opened for us into nature, the mind flows into and through things hardest and highest, and the metamorphosis is possible |