If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.

The fault finder will find faults even in paradise and thereby miss the joys that recognition of the positives bring.

Do you know how the naturalist learns all the secrets of the forest, of plants, of birds, of beasts, of reptiles, of fishes, of the rivers and the sea? When he goes into the woods the birds fly before him and he finds none; when he goes to the river bank, the fish and the reptile swim away and leave him alone. His secret is patience; he sits down, and sits still; he is a statue; he is a log.

In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society.

It is desirable that a man be clad so simply that he can lay his hands on himself in the dark, and that he live in all respects so compactly and preparedly, that, if an enemy take the town, he can, like the old philosopher, walk out the gate empty-handed without anxiety.

Men talk of freedom! How many are free to think? Free from fear, from perturbation, from prejudice? Nine hundred and ninety-nine in a thousand are perfect slaves.

The true harvest of my life is intangible - a little star dust caught, a portion of the rainbow I have clutched.