Surely joy is the condition of life.

Why should we leave it to Harper & Brothers and Redding & Co. to select our reading?

Ah! I need solitude. I have come forth to this hill at sunset to see the forms of the mountains in the horizon - to behold and commune with something grander than man. Their mere distance and unprofanedness is an infinite encouragement. it is with infinite yearning and aspiration that I seek solitude, more and more resolved and strong; but with a certain weakness that I seek society ever.

There is nothing more difficult to find than oneself.

He who hears the rippling of rivers in these degenerate days will not utterly despair.

Let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature.

Rescue the drowning and tie your shoestrings.