I learned from my two years' experience that it would cost incredibly little trouble to obtain one's necessary food; that a man may use as simple a diet as the animals, and yet retain health and strength.

For many years I was a self-appointed inspector of snowstorms and rainstorms and did my duty faithfully, though I never received payment for it.

Since most of us spend our lives doing ordinary tasks, the most important thing is to carry them out extraordinarily well.

Nature would not appear so rich, the profusion so rich, if we knew a use for everything.

Writing may be either the record of a deed or a deed. It is nobler when it is a deed.

Moral reform is the effort to throw off sleep.

Duty is one and invariable; it requires no impossibilities, nor can it ever be disregarded with impunity.