Poetry is the only life got, the only work done, the only pure product and free labor of man, performed only when he has put all the world under his feet, and conquered the last of his foes.

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.

There are times when we have had enough even of our Friends.

I can alter my life by altering my attitude. He who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers.

To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.

Every nail driven should be as another rivet in the machine of the universe, you carrying on the work.

Objects of charity are not guests.