When a man truly commits, the universe will conspire to assure his success.

Long enough I had heard of irrelevant things; now at length I was glad to make acquaintance with the light that dwells in rotten wood. Where is all your knowledge gone to? It evaporates completely, for it has no depth.

The community has no bribe that will tempt a wise man.

The poet's, commonly, is not a logger's path, but a woodman's. The logger and pioneer have preceded him, like John the Baptist; eaten the wild honey, it may be, but the locusts also; banished decaying wood and the spongy mosses which feed on it, and built hearths and humanized Nature for him.

No man who acts from a sense of duty ever puts the lesser duty above the greater. No man has the desire and the ability to work onhigh things, but he has also the ability to build himself a high staging.

New ideas come into this world somewhat like falling meteors, with a flash and an explosion.

Since most of us spend our lives doing ordinary tasks, the most important thing is to carry them out extraordinarily well.