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- To be a saint is the exception; to be upright is the rule. Err, falter, sin, but be upright. To commit the least possible sin is the law for man. Sin is a gravitation.
- Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), 'Les Miserables'
- Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
- If your morals make you dreary, depend on it , they are wrong.
- Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
- Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894)
- Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn.
- John Muir (1838 - 1914), Our National Parks, 1901
- Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
- Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.
- Ralph W. Sockman
- Be courteous, be obliging, but don't give yourself over to be melted down for the benefit of the tallow trade.
- George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
- Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.
- Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
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