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

A hero's love is as delicate as a maiden's.

There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.

In short, I am convinced, both by faith and experience, that to maintain one's self on this earth is not a hardship but a pastime, if we will live simply and wisely; as the pursuits of the simpler nations are still the sports of the more artificial.

A stranger may easily detect what is strange to the oldest inhabitant, for the strange is his province.

I do believe that the outward and the inward life correspond; that if any should succeed to live a higher life, others would not know of it; that difference and distance are one. To set about living a true life is to go on a journey to a distant country, gradually to find ourselves surrounded by new scenes and men; and as long as the old are around me, I know that I am not in any true sense living a new or a better life.

Do not engage to find things as you think they are.