It enhances our sense of the grand security and serenity of nature to observe the still undisturbed economy and content of the fishes of this century, their happiness a regular fruit of the summer.

The only fruit which even much living yields seems to be often only some trivial success,--the ability to do some slight thing better. We make conquest only of husks and shells for the most part,--at least apparently,--but sometimes these are cinnamon and spices, you know.

No man loses ever on a lower level by magnanimity on a higher.

Let a slight snow come and cover the earth, and the tracks of men will show how little the woods and fields are frequented.

The object of love expands and grows before us to eternity, until it includes all that is lovely, and we become all that can love.

No man who acts from a sense of duty ever puts the lesser duty above the greater. No man has the desire and the ability to work onhigh things, but he has also the ability to build himself a high staging.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.