"Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much."
"Tis the good reader that makes the good book."
"Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul"
"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
"Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures."
"The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs."