Wherever there is a channel for water, there is a road for the canoe.

He who cannot exaggerate is not qualified to utter truth.

Humility like darkness reveals the heavenly lights.

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

Methinks I am never quite committed, never wholly the creature of my moods, but always to some extent their critic. My only integral experience is in my vision. I see, perchance, with more integrity than I feel.

The lakes are something which you are unprepared for; they lie up so high, exposed to the light, and the forest is diminished to a fine fringe on their edges, with here and there a blue mountain, like amethyst jewels set around some jewel of the first water, - so anterior, so superior, to all the changes that are to take place on their shores, even now civil and refined, and fair as they can ever be.

Don't be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.