But we are so fond of life that we have no leisure to entertain the terror of death. It is a honeymoon with us all through, and none of the longest. Small blame to us if we give our whole hearts to this glowing bride of ours, to the appetities, to honour, to the hungry curiosity of the mind, to the pleasure of the eyes in nature, and the pride of our own nimble bodies.

The outer world, from which we cower into our houses, seemed after all a gentle habitable place; and night after night a man's bed, it seemed, was laid and waiting for him in the fields, where God keeps an open house.

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

The first experience can never be repeated. The first love, the first sun-rise, the first South Sea Island, are memories apart, and touched a virginity of sense.

If you want a person's faults, go to those who love him. They will not tell you, but they know.

Sing a song of seasons; something bright in all, flowers in the summer, fires in the fall.

It's a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.