Most men are satisfied if they read or hear read, and perchance have been convicted by the wisdom of one good book, the Bible, and for the rest of their lives vegetate and dissipate their faculties in what is called easy reading.

Wildness is the preservation of the World.

The bluebird carries the sky on his back.

As for style of writing if one has anything to say it drops from him simply and directly as a stone falls to the ground.

The modern cheap and fertile press, with all its translations, has done little to bring us nearer to the heroic writers of antiquity.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.