The early months of marriage often are times of critical tumult,--whether that of a shrimp pool or of deeper water,--which afterwards subside into cheerful peace.

I can't bear fishing. I think people look like fools sitting watching a line hour after hour-or else throwing and throwing, and catching nothing.

There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.

Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning.

Melodies die out, like the pipe of Pan, with the ears that love them and listen for them.

We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.

Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.