I have a deep sympathy with war; it so apes the gait and bearing of the soul.

Don't get to the end of your life and realize you have never lived.

To say that God has given a man many and great talents frequently means that he has brought his heavens down within reach of his hands.

A man's interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.

In the student sensuality is a sluggish habit of mind.

"Hear! hear!" screamed the jay from a neighboring tree, where I had heard a tittering for some time, "winter has a concentrated and nutty kernel, if you know where to look for it."

I have now a library of nearly nine hundred volumes, over seven hundred of which I wrote myself.