The most striking thing about the rich is the gracious democracy of their manners -- and the crude vulgarity of their way of life.

A city man is a home anywhere, for all big cities are much alike. But a country man has a place where he belongs, where he always returns, and where, when the time comes, he is willing to die.

Simplicity is always a virtue.

The missionaries go forth to Christianize the savages - as if the savages weren't dangerous enough already.

The artist's job? To be a miracle worker: make the blind see, the dull feel, the dead to live.

Our modern industrial economy takes a mountain covered with trees, lakes, running streams and transforms it into a mountain of junk, garbage, slime pits, and debris.

My own ambition, my deepest and truest ambition, is to find within myself someday, somehow, the ability to do likewise, to do NOTHING - and find it enough.