“THERE is something in the autumn that is native to my blood Touch of manner, hint of mood; And my heart is like a rhyme, With the yellow and the purple and the crimson keeping time.”

“On the shining yards of heavenSee a wider dawn unfurled. . . . The eternal slaves of beautyAre the masters of the world.”

“Whether it be to failure or success the first need of being is endurance -to endure with gladness if we can with fortitude in any event.”

“I took a day to search for God And found Him not. But as I trod By rocky ledge through woods untamed Just where one scarlet lily flamed I saw His foot print in the sod.”

“Indifference may not wreck a man's life at any one turn but it will destroy him with a kind of dry-rot in the long run.”

“The greatest joy in nature is the absence of man.”

“Nobody works better under pressure. They just work faster.”

“Youth, with all its accompanying risks, humiliations, and uncertainties, the pressure to do it all before its too late.”

“We feel a lot of pressure about looking silly or appearing weak, whatever that means, or being a failure. You have to keep in your head: what's the worst that can happen?”

“She smiled and said with an ecstatic air: "It shines like a little diamond","What does?""This moment. It is round, it hangs in empty space like a little diamond; I am eternal.”

“I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond.”

“True friends are like diamonds bright, beautiful, valuable, and always in style.”