The eye which can appreciate the naked and absolute beauty of a scientific truth is far more rare than that which is attracted by a moral one.

I have, as it were, my own sun and moon and stars, and a little world all to myself.

A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority.

The cart before the horse is neither beautiful nor useful.

Poetry is nothing but healthy speech.

There is no just and serene criticism as yet.

As we lay huddled together under the tent, which leaked considerably about the sides, with our baggage at our feet, we listened to some of the grandest thunder which I ever heard, -rapid peals, round and plump, bang, bang, bang in succession, like artillery from some fortress in the sky; and the lightning was proportionally brilliant. The Indian said, 'It must be good powder.' All for the benefit of the moose and us, echoing far over the concealed lakes.