"It is a great art to saunter..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“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.”

“Treat your friends for what you know them to be. Regard no surfaces. Consider not what they did, but what they intended.”

“That virtue we appreciate is as much ours as another s. We see so much only as we possess.”

“One may imagine that a man who blew the trumpet for his living would be glad to play the violin for his amusement.”

“I'm only wishing to go a-fishing;For this the month of May was made.”

“Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.”

“Now and then it is a joy to have one's table red with wine and roses.”

“Begin at once to live and count each day a separate life time.”- Seneca“Our lives are the sum total of the choices we have made.”

“I am living a new and exalted life of late. It steeps me in a sacred rapture to see a portrait develop and take soul under my hand. First, I throw off a study - just a mere study, a few apparently random lines - and to look at it you would hardly ever suspect who it was going to be; even I cannot tell, myself.”