I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary.

The poet is he who can write some pure mythology today without the aid of posterity.

He who owns little is little owned.

For a man needs only to be turned around once with his eyes shut in this world to be lost...Not 'til we are lost do we begin to find ourselves.

Humor, however broad and genial, takes a narrower view than enthusiasm.

As I love nature, as I love singing birds, and gleaming stubble, and flowing rivers, and morning and evening, and summer and winter, I love thee, my Friend.

Even the elephant carries but a small trunk on his journeys. The perfection of traveling is to travel without baggage.