Late in the afternoon we passed a man on the shore fishing with a long birch pole.... The characteristics and pursuits of various ages and races of men are always existing in epitome in every neighborhood. The pleasures of my earliest youth have become the inheritance of other men. This man is still a fisher, and belongs to an era in which I myself have lived.

However much we admire the orator's occasional bursts of eloquence, the noblest written words are commonly as far behind or abovethe fleeting spoken language as the firmament with its stars is behind the clouds.

Open all your pores and bathe in all the tides of nature, in all her streams and oceans, at all seasons.

Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through, and you could go in the back way.

Whatever has not come under the sway of man is wild. In this sense original and independent men are wild - not tamed and broken by society.

If I have unjustly wrested a plank from a drowning man, I must restore it to him though I drown myself.

If you would feel the full force of a tempest, take up your residence on the top of Mount Washington, or at the Highland Light, inTruro.