Show me a man who feels bitterly toward John Brown, and let me hear what noble verse he can repeat. He'll be as dumb as if his lips were stone.

To see wild life you must go forth at wild season.

Nature has left nothing to the mercy of man.

Have no mean hours, but be grateful for every hour, and accept what it brings. The reality will make any sincere record respectable.

There has always been the same amount of light in the world. The new and missing stars, the comets and eclipses, do not affect thegeneral illumination, for only our glasses appreciate them.

Of what significance are the things you can forget.

The inhabitants of the Cape generally do not complain of their "soil," but will tell you that it is good enough for them to dry their fish on.