We need the tonic of the wilderness, to wade sometimes in the marsh where the bitten and the meadow hen lurk, and hear the booming of the snipe; to smell the whispering sedge where only some wilder and more solitary fowl builds her nest, and the mink crawls with its belly close to the ground.

We inspire friendship in men when we have contracted friendship with the gods.

We must heap up a great pile of doing, for a small diameter of being.

I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life.

City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

It is too late to be studying Hebrew; it is more important to understand even the slang of today.

The theories and speculations of men concern us more than their puny accomplishment. It is with a certain coldness and languor that we loiter about the actual and so-called practical.