With all your science can you tell me how it is, and when it is, that light comes into the soul?

Let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature.

A truly good book is something as wildly natural and primitive, mysterious and marvelous, ambrosial and fertile as a fungus or a lichen.

And if the civilized man's pursuits are no worthier than the savage's, if he is employed the greater part of his life in obtaininggross necessaries and comforts merely, why should he have a better dwelling than the former?

A man's interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.

Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb nail.

The man whose horse trots a mile in a minute does not carry the most important messages.