Who is old enough to have learned from experience?
The unconsciousness of man is the consciousness of God.
Undoubtedly, in the most brilliant successes, the first rank is always sacrificed.
I have heard a good many pretend that they are going to die; or that they have died, for aught that I know. Nonsense! I'll defy them to do it. They have n't got life enough in them.... Only half a dozen or so have died since the world began.
What we call wildness is a civilization other than our own.
Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.