A true Friendship is as wise as it is tender. The parties to it yield implicitly to the guidance of their love, and know no otherlaw nor kindness.

Our sadness is not sad, but our cheap joys.

Every sunset I witness inspires me with the desire to go to West as distant and as fair as that which the sun goes down. Eastward I go only by force; but westward I go free.

We need the tonic of the wilderness, to wade sometimes in the marsh where the bitten and the meadow hen lurk, and hear the booming of the snipe; to smell the whispering sedge where only some wilder and more solitary fowl builds her nest, and the mink crawls with its belly close to the ground.

Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.

Lose the world, get lost in it, and find your soul.

Decay and disease are often beautiful, like the pearly tear of the shellfish and the hectic glow of consumption.