We can outrun the wind and the storm, but we cannot outrun the demon of hurry

I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral

Literature is an investment of genius which has dividends to all subsequent times

In sorrow he learned this truth: Though one may return to the place of his birth, he cannot go back to his youth

I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.

I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.

Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him.

Culture means the perfect and equal development of man on all sides

The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind

There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad

It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative

If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature; and the greatest of these, at least the most constant and always at hand, is nature

Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral

The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.

Leap, and the net will appear

If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go

To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.

For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice

The secret of happiness is having something meaningful to do, seeking purpose