I am still a learner, not a teacher, feeding somewhat omnivorously, browsing both stalk & leaves

The civilized man is a more experienced and wiser savage.

Most men, even in this comparatively free country, through mere ignorance and mistake, are so occupied with the factitious cares and superfluously coarse labors of life that its finer fruits cannot be plucked by them.

Fishing has been styled 'a contemplative man's recreation,' ... and science is only a more contemplative man's recreation.

He who cannot exaggerate is not qualified to utter truth.

My facts shall be falsehoods to the common sense. I would so state facts that they shall be significant, shall be myths or mythologic. Facts which the mind perceived, thoughts which the body thought - with these I deal.

The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?