It is after we get home that we really go over the mountain, if ever.

The value of any experience is measured, of course, not by the amount of money, but the amount of development we get out of it.

Be sure that you give the poor the aid they most need. If you give money, spend yourself with it, and do not merely abandon it to them. Often the poor man is not cold and hungry as he is dirty and ragged and gross. It is partly his taste, and not merely his misfortune.

The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.

We must have infinite faith in each other.

I want the flower and fruit of a man; that some fragrance be wafted over from him to me, and some ripeness flavor our intercourse.

I do not believe there are eight hundred human beings on the globe.