As for style of writing, if one has anything to say, it drops from him simply and directly, as a stone falls to the ground.

It requires more than a day's devotion to know and to possess the wealth of a day.

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

The universe expects every man to do his duty in his parallel of latitude.

It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious.

Two thousand summers have imparted to the monuments of Grecian literature, as to her marbles, only a maturer golden and autumnal tint, for they have carried their own serene and celestial atmosphere into all lands to protect them against the corrosion of time.

For my part, I feel that with regard to Nature I live a sort of border life, on the confines of a world, into which I make occasional and transient forays only, and my patriotism and allegiance to the state into whose territories I seem to retreat are those of a moss-trooper. Unto a life which I call natural I would gladly follow even a will-o'-the-wisp through bogs and sloughs unimaginable, but no moon nor fire-fly has shown me the cause-way to it. Nature is a personality so vast and universal that we have never seen one of her features.