What sort of space is that which separates a man from his fellows and makes him solitary?

The imagination, give it the least license, dives deeper and soars higher than Nature goes.

Some have asked if the stock of men could not be improved,--if they could not be bred as cattle. Let Love be purified, and all therest will follow. A pure love is thus, indeed, the panacea for all the ills of the world.

As I came home through the woods with my string of fish, trailing my pole, it being now quite dark, I caught a glimpse of a woodchuck stealing across my path, and felt a strange thrill of savage delight, and was strongly tempted to seize and devour him raw; not that I was hungry then, except for that wildness which he represented.

We shall be reduced to gnaw the very crust of the earth for nutriment.

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

The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it.