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.
Your religion is where your love is.
That aim in life is highest which requires the highest and finest discipline.
I was daily intoxicated, yet no man could call me intemperate.
Fame itself is but an epitaph; as late, as false, as true.
Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.