One's happiness depends less on what he knows than on what he feels.
The happiest life has the greatest number of points of contact with the world, and it has the deepest feeling and sympathy with everything that is.
There is great satisfaction in a well-made clean tool that does its work well.
Tools of many kinds and well chosen, are one of the joys of a garden.
There are two essential epochs in any enterprise - to begin, and to get done.
When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.