I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.

Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the machine. What I have to do is to see, at any rate, that I do not lend myself to the wrong which I condemn.

We must have infinite faith in each other. If we have not, we must never let it leak out that we have not.

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.

One of the most attractive things about the flowers is their beautiful reserve.

If we were always, indeed, getting our living, and regulating our lives according to the last and best mode we had learned, we should never be troubled with ennui.

Heroes are often the most ordinary of men.