What have I to do with plows? I cut another furrow than you see.

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

For the most part we allow only outlying and transient circumstances to make our occasions. They are, in fact, the cause of our distraction.

A man's interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.

Yet I experienced sometimes that the most sweet and tender, the most innocent and encouraging society may be found in any naturalobject, even for the poor misanthrope and most melancholy man. There can be no very black melancholy to him who lives in the midst of nature and has his senses still.

To regret deeply is to live afresh.

We must have infinite faith in each other.