I like sometimes to take rank hold on life and spend my day more as the animals do. Perhaps I have owed to this employment and tohunting, when quite young, my closest acquaintance with Nature. They early introduce us to and detain us in scenery with which otherwise, at that age, we should have little acquaintance.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

The only people who ever get anyplace interesting are the people who get lost.

The works of great poets have never been read by mankind, for only great poets can read them.

In order to die, you must first have lived.

Many men walk by day; few walk by night. It is a different season.

A truly good book is something as wildly natural and primitive, mysterious and marvelous, ambrosial and fertile as a fungus or a lichen.