It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.

The best thing a man can do for his culture when he is rich is to endeavor to carry out those schemes which he entertained when he was poor

The mass of men are very easily imposed on. They have their runways in which they always travel, and are sure to fall into any pit or box-trap set therein.

One farmer says to me, "You cannot live on vegetable food solely, for it furnishes nothing to make the bones with;" and so he religiously devotes a part of his day to supplying himself with the raw material of bones; walking all the while he talks behind his oxen, which, with vegetable-made bones, jerk him and his lumbering plow along in spite of every obstacle.

You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure.

I look upon England today as an old gentleman who is travelling with a great deal of baggage, trumpery which has accumulated fromlong housekeeping, which he has not the courage to burn.

In literature it is only the wild that attracts us.