Fishing has been styled 'a contemplative man's recreation,' ... and science is only a more contemplative man's recreation.

Cold and hunger seem more friendly to my nature than those methods which men have adopted and advise to ward them off.

One can hardly imagine a more healthful employment, or one more favorable to contemplation and the observation of nature.

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

It is interesting to observe with what singular unanimity the farthest sundered nations and generations consent to give completeness and roundness to an ancient fable, of which they indistinctly appreciate the beauty or the truth. By a faint and dream-like effort, though it be only by the vote of a scientific body, the dullest posterity slowly add some trait to the mythus. As when astronomers call the lately discovered planet Neptune; or the asteroid Astr

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.

That man is richest who's pleasure are cheapest.