Why should we be startled by death? Life is a constant putting off of the mortal coil - coat, cuticle, flesh and bones, all old clothes.

Roads are made for horses and men of business. I do not travel in them much.

It is desirable that a man be clad so simply that he can lay his hands on himself in the dark, and that he live in all respects so compactly and preparedly, that, if an enemy take the town, he can, like the old philosopher, walk out the gate empty-handed without anxiety.

The artist and his work are not to be separated. The most willfully foolish man cannot stand aloof from his folly, but the deed and the doer together make ever one sober fact.

If I ever see more clearly at one time than at another, the medium through which I see is clearer.

I learned what it is to live in the open air, and I learned that our lives are domestic in more sense than we think.

However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are.