That Cabot merely landed on the uninhabitable shore of Labrador gave the English no just title to New England, or to the United States generally, any more than to Patagonia.

The monster is never just there where we think he is. What is truly monstrous is our cowardice and sloth.

A truly good book is something as natural, and as unexpectedly and unaccountably fair and perfect, as a wild-flower discovered on the prairies of the West or in the jungles of the East.

As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.

I pray that the life of this spring and summer may ever lie fair in my memory.

The most difficult thing to understand during conversation is silence.

If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.