It is no use trying to improve on children's names for wildflowers.

Death by starvation is slow.

Ride your emotions as the shallop rides the waves; don't get upset among them. There are people who enjoy getting swamped emotionally, just as, incredibly, there are people who enjoy getting drunk.

It is always so much easier to be moral than it is to be spiritual.

Genius may be for an hour or a thousand years; its indispensable quality is continuity with the life-push.

When a woman ceases to alter the fashion of her hair, you guess that she has passed the crisis of her experience.

Probably we never fully credit the interdependence of wild creatures, and their cognizance of the affairs of their own kind.