I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by a conscious endeavor.
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?
Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.
