This life is not for complaint, but for satisfaction.

Each humblest plant, or weed, as we call it, stands there to express some thought or mood of ours; and yet how long it stands in vain!... Beauty and true wealth are always thus cheap and despised.

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

The fact which the politician faces is merely that there is less honor among thieves than was supposed, and not the fact that theyare thieves.

I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beechtree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines.

Perhaps the facts most astounding and most real are never communicated by man to man.

Perhaps we should never procure a new suit, however ragged or dirty the old, until we have so conducted or enterprised or sailed in some way, that we feel like new men in the old, and that to retain it would be like keeping new wine in old bottles.