For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.

Culture means the perfect and equal development of man on all sides.

Nature exists for man no more than she does for monkeys, and is as regardless of his life or pleasure or success as she is of the fleas. Her waves will drown him, her fire burn him, and her earth devour him, her storms and lightning smite him, as if he were only a dog.

Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.

Nature comes home to one most when one is at home. The stranger and traveler finds her a stranger and traveler also.

The gift of perfume to a flower is a special grace like genius or like beauty, and never becomes common or cheap.

The floating vapour is just as true an illustration of the law of gravity as the falling avalanche.