If we dealt only with the false and dishonest, we should at last forget how to speak truth.

"Hear! hear!" screamed the jay from a neighboring tree, where I had heard a tittering for some time, "winter has a concentrated and nutty kernel, if you know where to look for it."

Nature spontaneously keeps us well. Do not resist her!

I think that Nature meant kindly when she made our brothers few. However, my voice is still for peace.

I am awaked almost every night by the panting of the locomotive. It interrupts my dreams. There is no sabbath.

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success. What we do best or most perfectly is what we have most thoroughly learned by the longest practice, and at length it falls from us without our notice, as a leaf from a tree.

Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.