When I consider that the noble animals have been exterminated here - the cougar, panther, lynx, wolverine, wolf, bear, moose, deer, the beaver, the turkey, etc, etc - I cannot but feel as I lived in a tamed, and, as it were, emasculated country.

Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them.

Since most of us spend our lives doing ordinary tasks, the most important thing is to carry them out extraordinarily well.

As for style of writing, if one has anything to say, it drops from him simply and directly, as a stone falls to the ground.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.

Nature refuses to sympathize with our sorrow. She seems not to have provided for, but by a thousand contrivances against it.