We got together in a few days a company of the toughest old salts imaginable--not pretty to look at, but fellows, by their faces, of the most indomitable spirit.

For the forest takes away from you all excuse to die. There is nothing here to cabin or thwart your free desires. Here all impudences of the brawling world reach you no more.

There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.

In the harsh face of life faith can read a bracing gospel.

The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.

Children are certainly too good to be true.

Really don't choose every day from the harvest you experience but from the seeds you plant