Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Color, which is the poet's wealth, is so expensive that most take to mere outline sketches and become men of science.

I make it my business to extract from Nature what ever nutriment she can furnish me.... I milk the sky and the earth.

If a man is rich and strong anywhere, it must be on his native soil. Here I have been these forty years learning the language of these fields that I may the better express myself. If I should travel to the prairies, I should much less understand them, and my past life would serve me but ill to describe them. Many a weed here stands for more of life to me than the big trees of California would if I should go there. We need only travel enough to give our intellects an airing.

It is difficult to begin without borrowing, but perhaps it is the most generous course thus to permit your fellowmen to have an interest in your enterprise.

For the most part we allow only outlying and transient circumstances to make our occasions. They are, in fact, the cause of our distraction.

What exercise is to the body, employment is to the mind and morals.