Only the defeated and deserters go to war.

A taste for the beautiful is most cultivated out of doors

The voice of nature is always encouraging.

Always the laws of light are the same, but the modes and degrees of seeing vary.

Whatever your sex or position, life is a battle in which you are to show your pluck, and woe be to the coward. Whether passed on a bed of sickness or a tented field, it is ever the same fair play and admits no foolish distinction. Despair and postponement are cowardice and defeat. Men were born to succeed, not to fail.

When the reptile is attacked at one mouth of his burrow, he shows himself at another.

It is a thorough process, this war with the wilderness - breaking nature, taming the soil. feeding it on oats. The civilized man regards the pine tree as his enemy. He will fell it and let in the light, grub it up and raise wheat or rye there. It is no better than a fungus to him.