When a soldier is hit by a cannonball, rags are as becoming as purple.

When I consider that the noble animals have been exterminated here - the cougar, panther, lynx, wolverine, wolf, bear, moose, deer, the beaver, the turkey, etc, etc - I cannot but feel as I lived in a tamed, and, as it were, emasculated country.

It would be well, perhaps, if we were to spend more of our days and nights without any obstruction between us and the celestial bodies, if the poet did not speak so much from under a roof, or the saint dwell there so long. Birds do not sing in caves, nor do doves cherish their innocence in dovecots.

To what end do I lead a simple life at all, pray? That I may teach others to simplify their lives? - and so all our lives be simplified merely, like an algebraic formula? Or not, rather, that I may make use of the ground I have cleared to live more worthily and profitably?

He is not a true man of science who does not bring some sympathy to his studies, and expect to learn something by behaviour as well as application.

Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it.

It is what a man thinks of himself that really determines his fate.