I do not believe there is any one study that can be taken up that will broaden the imagination, that will be the source from which will spring more deep thinking and sincere research than the study of astronomy.

we know by the odour that occasionally we are visited by skunks, which are not poetic but very beautiful.

When any man accumulates more than he can earn with his own hands, he begins to enrich himself at the expense of the youth, the sweat, the blood, the joy of his fellow men.

The Cardinal ... It was as if a pulsing heart of flame passed by when he came winging through the orchard.

You cannot write on the heart of another what you do not feel yourself.

the occasional cries of a lost loon, strayed from its flock in northern migration, fill the swamp with sounds of wailing.

There was an exquisitely beautiful conception in my brain when I did this piece of work all alone from midnight until morning after the experience of a wonderful day. But I was not able to make the consummation anywhere nearly as beautiful as the inspiration. That, I suppose, is the cry of every heart struggling for self-expression.