Life consists with wildness. The most alive is the wildest. Not yet subdued to man, its presence refreshes him.

That is a pathetic inquiry among travelers and geographers after the site of ancient Troy. It is not near where they think it is.When a thing is decayed and gone, how indistinct must be the place it occupied!

Truth is always paradoxical.

I have found it a singular luxury to talk across the pond to a companion on the opposite side.

How few things can a man measure with the tape of his understanding ; How many greater things might he be seeing in the meanwhile.

Things don't change. We change.

The newest is but the oldest made visible to our senses.