All endeavour calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil.

We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light.

A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind.

You need not rest your reputation on the dinners you give.

The virtue of making two blades of grass grow where only one grew before does not begin to be superhuman.

...how deep the ruts of tradition and conformity!

As far as our noblest hardwood forests are concerned, the animals, especially squirrels and jays, are our greatest and almost only benefactors. It is to them that we owe this gift. It is not in vain that the squirrels live in or about every forest tree, or hollow log, and every wall and heap of stones.