The bluebird carries the sky on his back.

The only fruit which even much living yields seems to be often only some trivial success,--the ability to do some slight thing better. We make conquest only of husks and shells for the most part,--at least apparently,--but sometimes these are cinnamon and spices, you know.

Keep up the fires of thought, and all will go well.

Everything may serve a lower as well as a higher use.

Almost any mode of observation will be successful at last, for what is most wanted is method.

The meeting of two eternities, the past and future....is precisely the present moment.

When some of my friends have asked me anxiously about their boys, whether they should let them hunt, I have answered yes-- remembering that it was one of the best parts of my education-- make them hunters.