Every child begins the world again, to some extent, and loves to stay outdoors, even in wet and cold. It plays house, as well as horse, having an instinct for it...At last we know not what it is to live in the open air, and our lives are domestic in more senses than we think.

Fire is the most tolerable third party

The millions are awake enough for physical labor; but only one in a million is awake enough for effective intellectual exertion, only one in a hundred millions to a poetic or divine life. To be awake is to be alive.

Open all your pores and bathe in all the tides of nature, in all her streams and oceans, at all seasons.

Live free, child of the mist,- and with respect to knowledge we are allchildren of the mist.

I derive no pleasure from talking with a young woman simply because she has regular features.

The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right.