Nature is slow, but sure; she works no faster than need be; she is the tortoise that wins the race by her perseverance.

You must have a genius for charity as well as for anything else.

Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the machine. What I have to do is to see, at any rate, that I do not lend myself to the wrong which I condemn.

If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?

I had but three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship; three for society. When visitors came in larger and unexpected numbers there was but the third chair for them all, but they generally economized the room by standing up.

To see wild life you must go forth at wild season.

As I love nature, as I love singing birds, and gleaming stubble, and flowing rivers, and morning and evening, and summer and winter, I love thee, my Friend.