“I have discovered the secret of happiness - it is work, either with the hands or the head. The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy”
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“I have discovered the secret of happiness - it is work, either with the hands or the head. The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy”
“We can outrun the wind and the storm, but we cannot outrun the demon of hurry”
“I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral”
“Literature is an investment of genius which has dividends to all subsequent times”
“In sorrow he learned this truth: Though one may return to the place of his birth, he cannot go back to his youth”
“I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.”
“I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.”
“Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him.”
“Culture means the perfect and equal development of man on all sides”
“The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind”
“There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad”
“It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative”
“If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature; and the greatest of these, at least the most constant and always at hand, is nature”
“Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral”
“The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.”
“Leap, and the net will appear”
“If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go”
“To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.”
“For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice”
“The secret of happiness is having something meaningful to do, seeking purpose”