Some do not walk at all; others walk in the highways; a few walk across lots.

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

Fishing has been styled 'a contemplative man's recreation,' ... and science is only a more contemplative man's recreation.

The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.

In any weather, at any hour of the day or night, I have been anxious to improve the nick of time, and notch it on my stick too; to stand on the meeting of two eternities, the past and future, which is precisely the present moment; to toe that line.

Farmers are respectable and interesting to me in proportion as they are poor.

I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.