No man is useless while he has a friend.

My devil had been long caged, he came out roaring

There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.

I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.

One more touch of the bow, smell of the virginal Green - one more, and my bosom Feels new life with an ecstasy.

To believe in immortality is one thing, but it is first needful to believe in life.

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move; to feel the needs and hitches of our life more nearly; to come down off this feather-bed of civilisation, and find the globe granite underfoot and strewn with cutting flints.