Instead of water we got here a draught of beer, a lumberer's drink, which would acclimate and naturalize a man at once,-which would make him see green, and, if he slept, dream that he heard the wind sough among the pines.

Those services which the community will most readily pay for, it is most disagreeable to render.

Invariably our best nights were those when it rained.

In some countries a hunting parson is no uncommon sight. Such a one might make a good shepherd's dog, but is far from being the Good Shepherd.

I found in myself, and still find, an instinct toward a higher, or, as it is named, spiritual life, as do most men, and another toward a primitive rank and savage one, and I reverence them both. I love the wild not less than the good.

...how deep the ruts of tradition and conformity!

To the sick, indeed, nature is sick, but to the well, a fountain of health.