When the leaves fall, the whole earth is a cemetery pleasant to walk in. I love to wander and muse over them in their graves. Here are no lying nor vain epitaphs.

Simplicity is the peak of civilization.

The change from storm and winter to serene and mild weather, from dark and sluggish hours to bright and elastic ones, is a memorable crisis which all things proclaim. It is seemingly instantaneous at last.

The cost of a thing is something called life which is given in exchange for it.

Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life. This life in the present.

You cannot receive a shock unless you have an electric affinity for that which shocks you.

Man cannot afford to be a naturalist, to look at Nature directly, but only with the side of his eye. He must look through and beyond her.