Writing your name can lead to writing sentences. And the next thing you'll be doing is writing paragraphs, and then books. And then you'll be in as much trouble as I am!

If you're familiar with a principle you don't have to be familiar with all of its applications.

The sea-shore is a sort of neutral ground, a most advantageous point from which to contemplate the world....There is naked Nature, inhumanly sincere, wasting no thought on man, nibbling at the cliffy shore where gulls wheel amid the spray.

Cold and hunger seem more friendly to my nature than those methods which men have adopted and advise to ward them off.

We are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the filed, but not to describe human character.

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

The savage in man is never quite eradicated.