The most attractive sentences are, perhaps, not the wisest, but the surest and the roundest. They are spoken firmly and conclusively, as if the speak… - Henry David Thoreau

As the afternoons grow shorter, and the early evening drives us home to complete our chores, we are reminded of the shortness of life, and become more pensive, at least in this twilight of the year. We are prompted to make haste and finish our work before the night comes.

Honest traveling is about as dirty work as you can do, and a man needs a pair of overalls for it.

Love is the wind, the tide, the waves, the sunshine. Its power is incalculable; it is many horse-power. It never ceases, it never slacks; it can move the globe without a resting-place; it can warm without fire; it can feed without meat; it can clothe without garments; it can shelter without roof; it can make a paradise within which will dispense with a paradise without.