Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

A lake is a landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is Earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.

A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind.

My days were not days of the week, bearing the stamp of any heathen deity, nor were they minced into hours and fretted by the ticking of a clock; for I lived like the Puri Indians, of whom it is said that "for yesterday, today, and tomorrow they have only one word, and they express the variety of meaning by pointing backward for yesterday forward for tomorrow, and overhead for the passing day." This was sheer idleness to my fellow-townsmen, no doubt; but if the birds and flowers had tried me by their standard, I should not have been found wanting.

We need the tonic of wildness.

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

It is tranquil people who accomplish much.