A man may make a misanthrope of himself, but he is never one by nature.
The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.
Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had.
In our hearts those of us who know anything worth knowing know that in March a new year begins, and if we plan any new leaves, it will be when the rest of Nature is planning them too.
And the thing which is missing is love, some feeling for, as well as some understanding of, the inclusive community of rocks and soils, plants and animals, of which we are a part.
It is disastrous to own more of anything than you can possess, and it is one of the most fundamental laws of human nature that our power actually to possess is limited.
Man is the only one in whom the instinct of life falters long enough to enable it to ask the question "Why?
When you have two alternatives, the first thing you have to do is to look for the third that you didn't think about, that doesn't exist.
He walked by instinct along one white road, on which early birds hopped and sang, and found himself outside a fenced garden. There he saw the sister of Gregory, the girl with the gold-red hair, cutting lilac before breakfast, with the great unconscious gravity of a girl.
I'm sure that is a reason why young people occasionally bash up old people - because the ages don't mix any more.
So yo then man what's your story?