Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.

I saw a muskrat come out of a hole in the ice ... While I am looking at him, I am thinking what he is thinking of me. He is a different sort of man, that's all.

Remember that you need not eat unless you are hungry.

A man thinks as well through his legs and arms as this brain.

The chickadee and nuthatch are more inspiring society than statesmen and philosophers, and we shall return to these last as to more vulgar companions.

The greatest tragedy in life is to spend your whole life fishing only to discover it was never fish that you were after.

Open all your pores and bathe in all the tides of nature, in all her streams and oceans, at all seasons.