The only natural human beings seem to be those who are making trouble.

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

Youth is the period of harsh judgments, and a man seldom learns until he reaches thirty that human nature is made up not of simples, but of compounds.

I am inclined to believe that a man may be free to do anything he pleases if only he will accept responsibility for whatever he does.

To drink for pleasure may be a distraction, but to drink from misery is always a danger.

. . . 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.

No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated.