John Burroughs

Wisdom cannot come by railroad or automobile or aeroplane, or be hurried up by telegraph or telephone.

The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.

Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.

Women are about the best lovers of nature, after all; at least of nature in her milder and more familiar forms. The feminine character, the feminine perceptions, intuitions, delicacy, sympathy, quickness, are more responsive to natural forms and influences than is the masculine mind.

The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it.

Without the emotion of the beautiful, the sublime, the mysterious, there is no art, no religion, no literature.