Solitude is not measured by the miles of space that intervene between a man and his fellows. The really diligent student in one of the crowded hives of Cambridge college is as solitary as a dervis in the desert.

One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public. He will be stranger to him as he is more familiar to the audience. The longest intimacy could not foretell how he would behave then

If you see a man approaching you with the obvious intent of doing you good, you should run for your life.

find your eternity in each moment

What wisdom, what warning can prevail against gladness? There is no law so strong that a little gladness may not transgress.

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.

There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.