Too much principle is often more harmful than too little.

She must face her grief where the struggle is always hardest-in the place where each trivial object is attended by pleasant memories.

Many of the men who had come to the wilderness to practice religion appeared to have forgotten its true nature.

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

... the ordinary is simply the universal observed from the surface, that the direct approach to reality is not without, but within. Touch life anywhereand you will touch universality wherever you touch the earth.

Theories have nothing to do with life.

. . . 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.