There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.

There never is but one opportunity of a kind.

A man's whole life is taxed for the least thing well done. It is its net result.

In short, I am convinced, both by faith and experience, that to maintain one's self on this earth is not a hardship but a pastime, if we will live simply and wisely; as the pursuits of the simpler nations are still the sports of the more artificial.

Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.

The great poem must have the stamp of greatness as well as its essence.

The fact which interests us most is the life of the naturalist. The purest science is still biographical. Nothing will dignify and elevate science while it is sundered so wholly from the moral life of its devotee.