To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.

As far back as I can remember I have unconsciously referred to the experiences of a previous state of existence.

There must be the... generating force of Love behind every effort destined to be successful.

Most men cry better than they speak. You get more nurture out of them by pinching than addressing them.

I am awaked almost every night by the panting of the locomotive. It interrupts my dreams. There is no sabbath.

I do not know but thoughts written down thus in a journal might be printed in the same form with greater advantage than if the related ones were brought together into separate essays.

There were three classes of inhabitants who either frequent or inhabit the country which we had now entered: first, the loggers, who, for a part of the year, the winter and spring, are far the most numerous, but in the summer, except for a few explorers for timber, completely desert it; second, the few settlers I have named, the only permanent inhabitants, who live on the verge of it, and help raise supplies for the former; third, the hunters, mostly Indians, who range over it in their season.