"As for conforming outwardly, and living your own life inwardly, I do not think much of that."

"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them."

"I perceive that, when an acorn and a chestnut fall side by side, the one does not remain long in the mould of the other, but makes its own bed, and pushes itself away the shortest and surest way, by i…"

"An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day."

"To be awake is to be alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake. How could I have looked him in the face?"