A stranger may easily detect what is strange to the oldest inhabitant, for the strange is his province.

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

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

The fire is the main comfort of the camp, whether in summer or winter, and is about as ample at one season as at another. It is as well for cheerfulness as for warmth and dryness.

We waded so gently and reverently, or we pulled together so smoothly, that the fishes of thought were not scared from the stream, nor feared any angler on the bank, but came and went grandly, like the clouds which came and went on the western sky, and the mother-o'-pearl flocks which sometimes form and dissolve there.

Don't be afraid that your life will end, be afraid that it will never begin!

We need to witness our own limits transgressed, and some life pasturing freely where we never wander.