The fire is the main comfort of the camp, whether in summer or winter

Not by constraint or severity shall you have access to true wisdom, but by abandonment, and childlike mirth-fulness. If you would know aught, be gay before it.

A true Friendship is as wise as it is tender. The parties to it yield implicitly to the guidance of their love, and know no otherlaw nor kindness.

Christ is the prince of Reformers and Radicals.

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.

To inherit property is not to be born - it is to be still-born, rather.

I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid, and I have not the least doubt that it will stand a good while.