“It is the nature of stories to leave out far more than they include.”
“But life is not a legend or a story. Reality is far more precious than a story...”
“A child’s stories are simpler to understand because the language has not been developed to the point of high abstraction. An adult tells stories far more obtuse in nature.”
“In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.”
“Cutting out bad habits is far more effective than cutting out organs.”
“I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life, than on the nature of those events themselves.”