As long as possible live free and uncommitted. It makes but little difference whether you are committed to a farm or the county jail.

In my short experience of human life, the outward obstacles, if there were any such, have not been living men, but the institutions of the dead.

In short, I am convinced, both by faith and experience, that to maintain one's self on this earth is not a hardship but a pastime, if we will live simply and wisely; as the pursuits of the simpler nations are still the sports of the more artificial.

How can he remember well his ignorance - which his growth requires - who has so often to use his knowledge?

I am sure that I never read any memorable news in a newspaper.

The only people who ever get anyplace interesting are the people who get lost.

Commonly men will only be brave as their fathers were brave, or timid.