Both place and time were changed, and I dwelt nearer to those parts of the universe and to those eras in history which had most attracted me.

Explore thyself. Herein are demanded the eye and the nerve.

For many years I was a self-appointed inspector of snowstorms and rainstorms and did my duty faithfully, though I never received payment for it.

The government itself, which is only the mode which the people have chosen to execute their will, is equally liable to be abused and perverted before the people can act through it.

Men are probably nearer the essential truth in their superstitions than in their science.

I love Nature partly because she is not man, but a retreat from him. None of his institutions control or pervade her. There a different kind of right prevails. In her midst I can be glad with an entire gladness. If this world were all man, I could not stretch myself, I should lose all hope. He is constraint, she is freedom to me. He makes me wish for another world. She makes me content with this.

We are ever dying to one world and being born into another.