It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious.

The first pleasant days of spring come out like a squirrel and go in again.

I learned what it is to live in the open air, and I learned that our lives are domestic in more sense than we think.

So far as my experience goes, travelers generally exaggerate the difficulties of the way. Like most evil, the difficulty is imaginary; for what's the hurry?

It is worth the expense of youthful days and costly hours, if you learn only some words of an ancient language, which are raised out of the trivialness of the street, to be perpetual suggestions and provocations. It is not in vain that the farmer remembers and repeats the few Latin words which he has heard.

One revelation has been made to the Indian, another to the white man.

I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another.