I have found it a singular luxury to talk across the pond to a companion on the opposite side.

We are sometimes made aware of a kindness long passed, and realize that there have been times when our friends' thoughts of us were of so pure and lofty a character that they passed over us like the winds of heaven unnoticed; when they treated us not as what we were, but as what we aspired to be.

Cowards suffer, heroes enjoy.

The hawk is aerial brother of the wave which he sails over and surveys, those his perfect air-inflated wings answering to the elemental unfledged pinions of the sea.

if i repent of anything, it is very likely to be my good behavior. what demon possessed me that i behaved so well?

I think the fall from the farmer to the operative as great and memorable as that from the man to the farmer.

I was not born to be forced.