Every child can remember laying his head in the grass, staring into the infinitesimal forest and seeing it grow populous with fairy armies.

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

It is a great thing if you can persuade people that they are somehow or other partakers in a mystery. It makes them feel bigger.

We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.

The smack of California earth shall linger on the palate of your grandson.

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.

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.