Unless the human race perspire more than I do, there is no occasion to live by the sweat of their brow. If men cannot get on without money (the smallest amount will suffice), the truest method of earning it is by working as a laborer at one dollar per day. You are least dependent so; I speak as an expert, having used several kinds of labor.

I have learned that the swiftest traveller is he that goes afoot.

The intellect is a cleaver; it discerns and rifts its way into the secrets of things.

I felt a positive yearning toward one bush this afternoon. There was a match found for me at last. I fell in love with a shrub oak.

To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.

Ninety-nine one-hundredths of our lives we are mere hedgers and ditchers, but from time to time we meet with reminders of our destiny.

How can you expect the birds to sing when their groves are cut down?