Instead of studying how to make it worth men's while to buy my baskets, I studied rather how to avoid the necessity of selling them.

How often, when we have been nearest each other bodily, have we really been farthest off! Our tongues were the witty foils with which we fenced each other off.

We can never have enough of nature. We must be refreshed by the sight of inexhaustible vigor.

If you see a man approaching you with the obvious intent of doing you good, you should run for your life.

Unto a life which I call natural I would gladly follow even a will-o'-the-wisp through bogs and sloughs unimaginable, but no moonnor firefly has shown me the causeway to it.

One must maintain a little bittle of summer, even in the middle of winter.

If you chance to live and move and have your being in that thin stratum in which the events that make the news transpire,--thinnerthan the paper on which it is printed,--then these things will fill the world for you; but if you soar above or dive below that plane, you cannot remember nor be reminded of them.