Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.

Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.

A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor.

But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave.

Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.

Faith is a passionate intuition.

To me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.

For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity.

The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this.

The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.

The ocean is a mighty harmonist.

The things which I have seen I now can see no more.

The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.

That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.

What is pride? A rocket that emulates the stars.