A good talker, even more than a good orator, implies a good audience.

The English literary movement at the end of the 18th century was obviously due in great part, if not mainly, to the renewed practice of walking.

The wilderness provides an environment for a child's inner life to develop because it requires him to be constantly aware of his surroundings.

When I ceased to accept the teaching of my youth, it was not so much a process of giving up beliefs, as of discovering that I had never really believed.

Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is doing a public service.

Genius is a capacity for taking trouble.

Walking is the natural recreation for a man who desires not absolutely to suppress his intellect but to turn it out to play for a season.