Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty.

The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to give.

Grandpa says we've got everything to make us happy but happiness.

He felt with the force of a revelation that to throw up the clods of earth manfully is as beneficent as to revolutionize the world. It was not the matter of the work, but the mind that went into it, that counted - and the man who was not content to do small things well would leave great things undone.

I have watchedmany literary fashions shoot up and blossom, and then fade and drop.... Yet with the many that I have seen comeand go, I have never yet encountered a mode of thinking that regarded itself as simply a changing fashion, and not as an infallible approach to the right culture.

The transcendental point of view, the habit of thought bred by communion with earth and sky, had refined the grain while it had roughened the husk.

Do you know there is always a barrier between me and any man or woman who does not like dogs?