September 19

Westward, the mountain light dips out; a pond moon rises slowly in the east.

September 20

Trees, when they are lopped and cut, grow up again in a short time, but men, being once lost, cannot easily be recovered.

September 21

The promised land always lies on the other side of a wilderness.

September 22

Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few.

September 23

There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.

September 24

I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.

September 25

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

September 27

Some people succeed because they are destined to, but most people succeed because they are determined to.

September 28

Grander than the sea is the sky, grander than the sky is the conscience.

September 29

Nature never deceives us; it is always us who deceive ourselves.