Your richest veins don't lie nearest the surface.

If I were confined to a corner of a garret all my days, like a spider, the world would be just as large to me while I had my thoughts about me.

We need the tonic of the wilderness, to wade sometimes in the marsh where the bitten and the meadow hen lurk, and hear the booming of the snipe; to smell the whispering sedge where only some wilder and more solitary fowl builds her nest, and the mink crawls with its belly close to the ground.

There are various, nay, incredible faiths; why should we be alarmed at any of them? What man believes, God believes.

The hero is commonly the simplest and obscurest of men.

The fault finder will find faults even in paradise and thereby miss the joys that recognition of the positives bring.

Be as the sailor who keeps the polestar in his eye. By so doing we may not arrive at our port within a calculable period, but we will maintain a true course.