Give me the poverty that enjoys true wealth.

Truth strikes us from behind and in the dark, as well as from before and in broad daylight.

A man must generally get away some hundreds or thousands of miles from home before he can be said to begin his travels. Why not begin his travels at home? Would he have to go far or look very closely to discover novelties? The traveler who, in this sense, pursues his travels at home, has the advantage at any rate of a long residence in the country to make his observations correct and profitable. Now the American goes to England, while the Englishman comes to America, in order to describe the country.

What we call wildness is a civilization other than our own.

Today...the bluebirds, old and young, have revisited their box, as if they would fain repeat the summer without intervention of winter, if Nature would let them.

When the true criminals are running around free, the only honorable place for a decent human being is in prisons.

Unless we do more than simply learn the trade of our time, we are but apprentices, and not yet masters of the art of life.