Earth and Sky, Woods and Fields, Lakes and Rivers, the Mountain and the Sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.

When important decisions have to be taken, the natural anxiety to come to a right decision will often keep you awake. Nothing, however, is more conducive to healthful sleep than plenty of open air.

A Cheerful friend is like a sunny day, which sheds its brightness on all around.

False pleasures come from without and are imperfect: happiness is internal and our own.

Many savage nations worship trees, and I really think my first feeling would be one of delight and interest rather than of surprise, if some day when I am alone in the woods one of the trees were to speak to me.

Do not lay things too much to heart. No one is ever really beaten unless he is discouraged.

Many a blessing has been recognized too late.