The snow itself is lonely or, if you prefer, self-sufficient. There is no other time when the whole world seems composed of one thing and one thing only.

If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.

The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

To have passed through life and never experienced solitude is to have never known oneself. To have never known oneself is to have never known anyone.

A book ... unlike a television program, moving picture or any other 'modern means of communication' ... can wait for years, yet be available at any moment when it happens to be needed.

Those whose conscience demands that they defy authority in some ways that involve great consequences must be willing to accept some penalty.

It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.