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

When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable.

To watch this crystal globe just sent from heaven to associate with me. While these clouds and this somber drizzling weather shut all in, we two draw nearer and know one another.

There is no beginning too small.

Both place and time were changed, and I dwelt nearer to those parts of the universe and to those eras in history which had most attracted me.

The lakes are something which you are unprepared for; they lie up so high, exposed to the light, and the forest is diminished to a fine fringe on their edges, with here and there a blue mountain, like amethyst jewels set around some jewel of the first water, - so anterior, so superior, to all the changes that are to take place on their shores, even now civil and refined, and fair as they can ever be.

Men go back to the mountains, as they go back to sailing ships at sea, because in the mountains and on the sea they must face up.