Many an object is not seen, though it falls within the range of our visual ray, because it does not come within the range of our intellectual ray.

There must be some nerve and heroism in our love, as of a winter morning.

The repugnance to animal food is not the effect of experience, but is an instinct. It appeared more beautiful to live low and farehard in many respects; and though I never did so, I went far enough to please my imagination.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined...

Direct your eye inward, and you'll find / A thousand regions in your mind / Yet undiscovered. Travel them, and be / Expert in home-cosmography

Methinks some creeds in vestries and churches do forget the hunter wrapped in furs by the Great Slave Lake, and that the Esquimauxsledges are drawn by dogs, and in the twilight of the northern night the hunter does not give over to follow the seal and walrus on the ice. They are of sick and diseased imaginations who would toll the world's knell so soon. Cannot these sedentary sects do better than prepare the shrouds and write the epitaphs of those other busy living men? The practical faith of all men belies the preacher's consolation.

Man wanted a home, a place for warmth, or comfort, first of physical warmth, then the warmth of the affections.