Both place and time were changed, and I dwelt nearer to those parts of the universe and to those eras in history which had most attracted me.

We discover a new world every time we see the earth again after it has been covered for a season with snow.

The husbandman is always a better Greek than the scholar is prepared to appreciate, and the old custom still survives, while antiquarians and scholars grow gray in commemorating it.

You must have a genius for charity as well as for anything else.

I learned what it is to live in the open air, and I learned that our lives are domestic in more sense than we think.

I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual. It is surprising how contented one can be with nothing definite - only a sense of existence. Well, anything for variety.

Most of the stone a nation hammers goes toward its tomb only. It buries itself alive.