The secret of happiness is something to do.

I go to books and to nature as a bee goes to the flower, for a nectar that I can make into my own honey.

One can only learn his powers of action by action, and his powers of thought by thinking

....success in walking is not to let your right foot know what your left foot doeth. Your heart must furnish such music that in keeping time to it your feet will carry you around the globe without knowing it.

Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.

The place to observe nature is where you are.

What a severe yet master artist old Winter is... No longer the canvas and the pigments, but the marble and the chisel.