The Indian navigator naturally distinguishes by a name those parts of a stream where he has encountered quick water and forks, andagain, the lakes and smooth water where he can rest his weary arms, since those are the most interesting and more arable parts to him.

To what end do I lead a simple life at all, pray? That I may teach others to simplify their lives? - and so all our lives be simplified merely, like an algebraic formula? Or not, rather, that I may make use of the ground I have cleared to live more worthily and profitably?

As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.

The opportunities of living are diminished in proportion as what are called the "means" are increased.

Every walk is a sort of crusade, preached by some Peter the Hermit in us.

The dinner even is only the parable of a dinner, commonly.

Our molting season, like that of the fouls, must be a crisis in our lives.