Men have come to such a pass that they frequently starve, not for want of necessaries, but for want of luxuries.

That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.

It is a thorough process, this war with the wilderness - breaking nature, taming the soil. feeding it on oats. The civilized man regards the pine tree as his enemy. He will fell it and let in the light, grub it up and raise wheat or rye there. It is no better than a fungus to him.

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.

How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?

If the laborer gets no more than the wages which his employer pays him, he is cheated, he cheats himself.