There is an orientalism in the most restless pioneer, and the farthest west is but the farthest east.

He is the rich man, and enjoys the fruit of his riches, who summer and winter forever can find delight in his own thoughts.

I love a broad margin to my life. Sometimes, in a summer morning, having taken my accustomed bath, I sat in my sunny doorway from sunrise til noon, rapt in a revery.

Why should I feel lonely? is not our planet in the Milky Way?

Voting for the right is doing nothing for it.

I found that they knew but little of the history of their race, and could be entertained by stories about their ancestors as readily as any way .

Whatever is, and is not ashamed to be, is good.