The stars are distant and unobtrusive, but bright and enduring as our fairest and most memorable experiences.

The greatest and saddest defect is not credulity, but an habitual forgetfulness that our science is ignorance.

Through the din and desultoriness of noon, even in the most Oriental city, is seen the fresh and primitive and savage nature, in which Scythians and Ethiopians and Indians dwell. What is echo, what are light and shade, day and night, ocean and stars, earthquake and eclipse, there? The works of man are everywhere swallowed up in the immensity of nature. The AEgean Sea is but Lake Huron still to the Indian.

The sun is but a morning star.

I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life.

The most domestic cat, which has lain on a rug all her days, appears quite at home in the woods, and, by her sly and stealthy behavior, proves herself more native there than the regular inhabitants.

The whole of the day should not be daytime; there should be one hour, if not more, which the day did not bring forth.