Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.

The country is an archipelago of lakes,--the lake-country of New England.

Of what significance the light of day, if it is not the reflection of an inward dawn?--to what purpose is the veil of night withdrawn, if the morning reveals nothing to the soul? It is merely garish and glaring.

I have been as sincere a worshipper of Aurora as the Greeks.

I do not know at first what it is that harms me. The men and things of to-day are wont to be fairer and truer in to-morrow's memory.

My themes will not be far-fetched. I will tell of homely every-day phenomena and adventures.

Let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature, and not be thrown off the track by every nutshell and mosquito's wing that falls on the rails.