Half the joy of life is in the little things taken on the run. Let us run if we must–even the sands do that–but let us keep our hearts young and our eyes open that nothing worth our while shall escape us. And everything is worth its while if we only grasp it and its significance.
―C. Victor Cherbuliez

Never does nature say one thing
and wisdom another.
―Juvenal, Satires

It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of  the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
―Ralph Waldo Emerson