One may be drunk with love without being any nearer to finding his mate.

I do not know but thoughts written down thus in a journal might be printed in the same form with greater advantage than if the related ones were brought together into separate essays.

Spring-an experience in immortality.

I have made a very rude translation of the Seven against Thebes, and Pindar too I have looked at, and wish he was better worth translating. I believe even the best things are not equal to their fame. Perhaps it would be better to translate fame itself,--or is not that what the poets themselves do? However, I have not done with Pindar yet.

The West of which I speak is but another name for the Wild, and what I have been preparing to say is, that in Wildness is the preservation of the World

Many college text-books, which were a weariness and stumbling-block when I studied, I have since read a little with pleasure and profit.

The scholar is not apt to make his most familiar experience come gracefully to the aid of his expression.