So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

Extreme busyness is a symptom of deficient vitality, and a faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.

Strange indeed is the attraction of the forest for the minds of men.

Night is a dead monotonous period under a roof; but in the open world it passes lightly, with its stars and dews and perfumes, and the hours are marked by changes in the face of Nature. What seems a kind of temporal death to people choked between walls and curtains, is only a light and living slumber to the man who sleeps afield.

There's never a man looked me between the eyes and seen a good day a'terward.

-I am not sure whether he's sane. -If there's any doubt about the matter, he is.