Going from--toward; it is the history of every one of us.

None can be an impartial or wise observer of human life but from the vantage ground of what we should call voluntary poverty.

Friends are made for caring and sharing. Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

I have never met with a friend who furnished me sea-room. I have only tacked a few times and come to anchor - not sailed - made no voyage, carried no venture.

To the man who cherishes a secret in his breast, there is a still greater secret unexplored. Our most indifferent acts may be a matter for secrecy, but whatever we do with the utmost truthfulness and integrity, by virtue of its pureness, must be transparent as light.

Blessed are they who never read a newspaper, for they shall see Nature, and through her, God.

As I came home through the woods with my string of fish, trailing my pole, it being now quite dark, I caught a glimpse of a woodchuck stealing across my path, and felt a strange thrill of savage delight, and was strongly tempted to seize and devour him raw; not that I was hungry then, except for that wildness which he represented.