Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do not want society.

I suspect that, if you should go to the end of the world, you would find somebody there going farther, as if just starting for home at sundown, and having a last word before he drove off.

I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beechtree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines.

There is nothing more difficult to find than oneself.

They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.

As a preacher, I should be prompted to tell men, not so much how to get their wheat bread cheaper, as of the bread of life compared with which that is bran. Let a man only taste these loaves, and he becomes a skillful economist at once.

Be wary of technology; it is often merely an improved means to an unimproved end.