To live a better life,--this surely can be done.

I walk out into a nature such as the old prophets and poets Menu, Moses, Homer, Chaucer, walked in. You may name it America, but it is not America. Neither Americus Vespucius, nor Columbus, nor the rest were the discoverers of it. There is a truer account of it in Mythology than in any history of America so called that I have seen.

It is remarkable how many creatures live wild and free though secret in the woods.

A journal, is a book that shall contain a record of all your joy, your ecstasy, what you are grateful for.

For a man needs only to be turned around once with his eyes shut in this world to be lost...Not 'til we are lost do we begin to find ourselves.

The most difficult thing to understand during conversation is silence.

The best thing a man can do for his culture when he is rich is to endeavor to carry out those schemes which he entertained when he was poor