True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.
The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life.
Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.
The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.