"The method of nature: who could ever..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The essence of friendship is entireness, a total magnanimity and trust.”

“Why should we assume the faults of our friend, or wife, or father, or child, because they sit around our hearth, or are said to have the same blood?”

“People are very inclined to set moral standards for others.”

“Labour is the human element which makes the fruitful seasons of the earth useful to men.”

“Frightened of change? But what can exist without it? What's closer to nature's heart? Can you take a hot bath and leave the firewood as it was? Eat food without transforming it? Can any vital process take place without something being changed? Can't you see? It's just the same with you - and just as vital to nature.”

“Sagebrush is a very fair fuel, but as a vegetable it is a distinguished failure. Nothing can abide the taste of it but the jackass and his illegitimate child the mule.”

“You're awfully dark, brother," he said. "You don't know how dark.”

“When you have solved all the mysteries of life you long for death, for it is but another mystery of life.”

“The seed of mystery lies in muddy water. How can I perceive this mystery? Water becomes clear through stillness. How can I become still? By flowing with the stream.”