There is only one force stronger than selfishness, and that is stupidity.

Surely one of the peculiar habits of circumstances is the way they follow, in their eternal recurrence, a single course. If an event happens once in a life, it may be depended upon to repeat later its general design.

I never saw the man yet that came out of politics as clean as he went into 'em.

You look as if you had lived on duty and it hadn't agreed with you.

. . . every tree near our house had a name of its own and a special identity. This was the beginning of my love for natural things, for earth and sky, for roads and fields and woods, for trees and grass and flowers; a love which has been second only to my sense of enduring kinship with birds and animals, and all inarticulate creatures.

It would appear, from the best examples, that the proper way of beginning a preface to one's work is with a humble apology for having written at all.

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.