The ocean is a wilderness reaching round the globe, wilder than a Bengal jungle, and fuller of monsters, washing the very wharves of our cities and the gardens of our sea-side residences.

Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only.

The Great Snow! How cheerful it is to hear of!

Open all your pores and bathe in all the tides of nature, in all her streams and oceans, at all seasons.

The intercourse of the sexes, I have dreamed, is incredibly beautiful, too fair to be remembered. I have had thoughts about it, but they are among the most fleeting and irrecoverable in my experience.

It is the art of mankind to polish the world, and every one who works is scrubbing in some part.

One should be always on the trail of one's own deepest nature. For it is the fearless living out of your own essential nature that connects you to the Divine.