Between whom there is hearty truth there is love.

In how few words, for instance, the Greeks would have told the story of Abelard and Heloise, making but a sentence of our classical dictionary.... We moderns, on the other hand, collect only the raw materials of biography and history, "memoirs to serve for a history," which is but materials to serve for a mythology.

My themes will not be far-fetched. I will tell of homely every-day phenomena and adventures.

The experience of every past moment but belies the faith of each present.

I saw a muskrat come out of a hole in the ice ... While I am looking at him, I am thinking what he is thinking of me. He is a different sort of man, that's all.

It is remarkable how easily and insensibly we fall into a particular route, and make a beaten track for ourselves.

We discover a new world every time we see the earth again after it has been covered for a season with snow.