"From exertion come wisdom and purity; from..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“The change from storm and winter to serene and mild weather, from dark and sluggish hours to bright and elastic ones, is a memorable crisis which all things proclaim. It is seemingly instantaneous at last.”

“I like sometimes to take rank hold on life and spend my day more as the animals do. Perhaps I have owed to this employment and tohunting, when quite young, my closest acquaintance with Nature. They early introduce us to and detain us in scenery with which otherwise, at that age, we should have little acquaintance.”

“If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.”

“It is not the critic who counts...The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena.”

“You will always win if you make an effort, no matter how much. However, if you failed it means you were too lazy.”

“Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.”

“I can never fear that things will go far wrong where common sense has fair play.”

“Even a fool is wise after an event.”

“The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.”