Since most of us spend our lives doing ordinary tasks, the most important thing is to carry them out extraordinarily well.

Most men would feel shame if caught preparing with their own hands precisely such a dinner, whether of animal or vegetable food, as is every day prepared for them by others. Yet till this is otherwise we are not civilized, and, if gentlemen and ladies, are not true men and women. This certainly suggests what change is to be made.

We are ashamed of our fear; for we know that a righteous man would not suspect danger nor incur any. Wherever a man feels fear, there is an avenger.

The true harvest of my life is intangible - a little star dust caught, a portion of the rainbow I have clutched.

I love nature, I love the landscape, because it is so sincere. It never cheats me. It never jests. It is cheerfully, musically earnest. I lie and relie on the earth.

What we need to know in any case is very simple.

Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.