My enemies are worms, cool days, and most of all woodchucks.

We cannot see anything until we are possessed with the idea of it, take it into our heads,--and then we can hardly see anything else.

Any moral philosophy is exceedingly rare. This of Menu addresses our privacy more than most. It is a more private and familiar, and at the same time, a more public and universal word, than is spoken in parlor or pulpit nowadays.

When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable.

And now that we have returned to the desultory life of the plain, let us endeavor to import a little of that mountain grandeur into it. We will remember within what walls we lie, and understand that this level life too has its summit, and why from the mountain-top the deepest valleys have a tinge of blue; that there is elevation in every hour, as no part of the earth is so low that the heavens may not be seen from, and we have only to stand on the summit of our hour to command an uninterrupted horizon.

Perhaps the facts most astounding and most real are never communicated by man to man.

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.