I saw a muskrat come out of a hole in the ice ... While I am looking at him, I am thinking what he is thinking of me. He is a different sort of man, that's all.

Though the youth at last grows indifferent, the laws of the universe are not indifferent, but are forever on the side of the most sensitive.

If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.

Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?

As long as possible live free and uncommitted. It makes but little difference whether you are committed to a farm or the county jail.

Take Time by the forelock. It is also the safest part to take a serpent by.

What a battle a man must fight everywhere to maintain his standing army of thoughts, and march with them in orderly array throughthe always hostile country! How many enemies there are to sane thinking! Every soldier has succumbed to them before he enlists for those other battles.