Even in civilized communities, the embryo man passes through the hunter stage of development.

Let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature, and not be thrown off the track by every nutshell and mosquito's wing that falls on the rails.

When I would re-create myself, I seek the darkest wood, the thickest and most interminable and to the citizen, most dismal, swamp. I enter as a sacred place, a Sanctum sanctorum. There is the strength, the marrow, of Nature.

The squeaking of the pump sounds as necessary as the music of the spheres.

In the religion of all nations a purity is hinted at, which, I fear, men never attain to.

Two thousand summers have imparted to the monuments of Grecian literature, as to her marbles, only a maturer golden and autumnal tint, for they have carried their own serene and celestial atmosphere into all lands to protect them against the corrosion of time.

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.