However mean your life is, meet it and live it.

I could lecture on dry oak leaves; I could, but who would hear me? If I were to try it on any large audience, I fear it would be no gain to them, and a positive loss to me. I should have behaved rudely toward my rustling friends.

Dreams are the touchstones of our character.

Sweep away the clutter of things that complicate our lives.

We are more anxious to speak than to be heard.

For my part, I would rather look toward Rutland than Jerusalem. Rutland,--modern town,--land of ruts,--trivial and worn,--not toosacred,--with no holy sepulchre, but profane green fields and dusty roads, and opportunity to live as holy a life as you can, where the sacredness, if there is any, is all in yourself and not in the place.

It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.