Do not read the newspapers.

All sound heard at the greatest possible distance produces one and the same effect, a vibration of the universal lyre, just as the intervening atmosphere makes a distant ridge of earth interesting to our eyes by the azure tint it imparts to it.

The words of some men are thrown forcibly against you and adhere like burrs.

But the place which you have selected for your camp, though never so rough and grim, begins at once to have its attractions, and becomes a very centre of civilization to you: "Home is home, be it never so homely."

What would human life be without forests, those natural cities?

Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short.

Dissent without action is consent.