Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.
"If there's a buzzing-noise, somebody's making a buzzing-noise, and the only reason for making a buzzing-noise that I know of is because you're a bee." And then he got up, and said: "And the only reason for making honey is so I can eat it." So he began to climb the tree.
"It's a little Anxious," he said to himself, "to be a Very Small Animal Entirely Surrounded by Water."
How sweet to be a cloudFloating in the blue.
"I'm not going to do just nothing anymore.""Well, not so much. They don't let you."