"A dream nurtured by daily toil will inevitably outshine a wish born of idle hope. For where clarity resides, peace inevitably follows — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Do not measure life by the breaths you take, but by the moments that stir your soul — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"It is a steadfast truth that the highest expression of strength is tenderness toward the vulnerable."

"Courage is not the absence of trembling, but the decision to step forward regardless. A lesson woven into the fabric of human history — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society."

"I have seen the movement of the sinews of the sky, And the blood coursing in the veins of the moon."

"Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left."

"Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree."