The worst of sleeping out of doors is that you wake up so dreadfully early. And when you wake up you have to get up because the ground is so hard you are uncomfortable. And it makes matters worse if there is nothing but apples for breakfast and you have had nothing but apples for supper the night before.

You find out the strength of a wind by trying to walk against it, not by lying down.

I believe Buddhism to be a simplification of Hinduism and Islam to be a simplification of Xianity.

A man who has lived in many places is not likely to be deceived by the local errors of his native village; the scholar has lived in many times and is therefore in some degree immune from the great cataract of nonsense that pours from the press and the microphone of his own age.

The value given to the testimony of any feeling must depend on our whole philosophy, not our whole philosophy on a feeling.

Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done.

We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.