I hate the present modes of living and getting a living. Farming and shopkeeping and working at a trade or profession are all odious to me. I should relish getting my living in a simple, primitive fashion.

The way by which you may get money almost without exception leads downward.

We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bone.

I have learned that even the smallest house can be a home.

Writing may be either the record of a deed or a deed. It is nobler when it is a deed.

Can there be any greater reproach than an idle learning? Learn to split wood, at least.

We often love to think now of the life of men on beaches,--at least in midsummer, when the weather is serene; their sunny lives onthe sand, amid the beach-grass and bayberries, their companion a cow, their wealth a jag of driftwood or a few beach plums, and their music the surf and the peep of the beech-bird.