Probe the universe in a myriad of points. ... He is a wise man who has taken many views; to whom stones and plants and animals and a myriad of objects have each suggesting something, contributed something.

I have tasted but little bread in my life. It has been mere grub and provender for the most part. Of bread that nourished the brain and the heart, scarcely any. There is absolutely none on the tables even of the rich.

He who receives an injury is to some extent an accomplice of the wrong-doer.

Live free, child of the mist,- and with respect to knowledge we are allchildren of the mist.

There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.

Then at night the general stillness is more impressive than any sound, but occasionally you hear the note of an owl farther or nearer in the woods, and if near a lake, the semihuman cry of the loons at their unearthly revels.

I am never rich in money, and I am never meanly poor.