Fame is not just. She never finely or discriminatingly praises, but coarsely hurrahs.

A man's interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.

We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones. Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.

To come down to my own experience, my companion and I, for I sometimes have a companion, take pleasure in fancying ourselves knights of a new, or rather an old, order—not Equestrians or Chevaliers, not Ritters or Riders, but Walkers, a still more ancient and honorable class, I trust.

In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.

The true harvest of my life is intangible - a little star dust caught, a portion of the rainbow I have clutched.