John Burroughs

For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice – no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.

John Burroughs

I have discovered the secret of happiness. It is work.

John Burroughs

It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.

John Burroughs

Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all – that has been my religion.

John Burroughs

Love is the measure of life; only so far as we love do we really live.

John Burroughs

One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: ‘To rise above little things’.

John Burroughs

The kingdom of heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.

John Burroughs

The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.

John Burroughs

The secret of happiness is something to do.

John Burroughs

To regard the soul and body as one, or to ascribe to consciousness a physiological origin, is not detracting from its divinity; it is rather conferring divinity upon the body.

John Burroughs