It is not being out at heels that makes a man discontented, it is being out at heart. To be contented is to be good friends with yourself.

The first need of being is endurance; to endure with gladness if we can, with fortitude in any event.

The greatest joy in nature is the absence of man.

It is not being out at heels that makes a man discontented, it is being out at heart. To be contented is to be good friends with yourself.

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.

Lord of the far horizons, Give us the eyes to see Over the verge of the sundown The beauty that is to be.

Set me a task in which I can put something of my very self, and it is a task no longer; it is joy; it is art.