Happiness is a hardy annual.

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.

The truth is I've got the land on my back, an' it's drivin' me. Land is a hard driver.

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

Few forms of life are so engaging as birds.

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

Nobody, not even the old, not even the despairing, wished to come to an end in time or in eternity.