Let people go on talking as they like, and we will go on living as we think best.
I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.
Old people, who have felt blows and toil and known the world's hard hand, need, even more than children do, a woman's tenderness.
If youth did not matter so much to itself, it would never have the heart to go on.
A pioneer should have imagination, should be able to enjoy the idea of things more than the things themselves.
The air was cool enough to make the warm sun pleasant on one's back and shoulders, and so clear that the eye could follow a hawk up and up, into the blazing blue depths of the sky.