What we call wildness is a civilization other than our own.

Unto a life which I call natural I would gladly follow even a will-o'-the-wisp through bogs and sloughs unimaginable, but no moonnor firefly has shown me the causeway to it.

But government in which the majority rule in all cases can not be based on justice, even as far as men understand it.

Perhaps the facts most astounding and most real are never communicated by man to man.

I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary.

Frequently also some fair-weather finery ripped off a vessel by a storm near the coast was nailed up against an outhouse. I saw fastened to a shed near the lighthouse a long new sign with the words "ANGLO SAXON" on it in large gilt letters, as if it were a useless part which the ship could afford to lose, or which the sailors had discharged at the same time with the pilot. But it interested somewhat as if it had been a part of the Argo, clipped off in passing through the Symplegades.

The opportunities of living are diminished in proportion as what are called the "means" are increased.