A watch is the most essential part of a lecture.

youth, when it is hurt, likes to feel itself betrayed.

Ah! the terror and the delight of that moment when first we fear ourselves! Until then we have not lived.

Happy people do a great deal for their friends.

A pioneer should have imagination, should be able to enjoy the idea of things more than the things themselves.

The great fact in life, the always possible escape from dullness, was the lake. The sun rose out of it, the day began there; it was like an open door that nobody could shut. The land and all its dreariness could never close in on you. You had only to look at the lake, and you knew you would soon be free.

It is cremated youth. It is all yours--no one gave it to you.