Society is commonly too cheap. We meet at very short intervals, not having had time to acquire any new value for each other. We meet at meals three times a day, and give each other a new taste of that old musty cheese that we are.

We live thick and are in each other's way, and stumble over one another, and I think we thus lose some respect for one another.

If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.

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.

No doubt another may also think for me; but it is not therefore desirable that he should do so to the exclusion of my thinking for myself.

What is called eloquence in the forum is commonly found to be rhetoric in the study. The orator yields to the inspiration of a transient occasion, and speaks to the mob before him, to those who can hear him; but the writer, whose more equable life is his occasion, and who would be distracted by the event and the crowd which inspire the orator, speaks to the intellect and heart of mankind, to all in any age who can understand him.

Going from--toward; it is the history of every one of us.