If all were as it seems, and men made the elements their servants for noble ends!

I love you not as something private and personal, which is my own, but as something universal and worthy of love which I have found.

Only that day dawns to which we are awake.

The sea-shore is a sort of neutral ground, a most advantageous point from which to contemplate the world....There is naked Nature, inhumanly sincere, wasting no thought on man, nibbling at the cliffy shore where gulls wheel amid the spray.

There is one consolation in being sick; and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better state than you were ever in before.

Writing may be either the record of a deed or a deed. It is nobler when it is a deed.

There were three classes of inhabitants who either frequent or inhabit the country which we had now entered: first, the loggers, who, for a part of the year, the winter and spring, are far the most numerous, but in the summer, except for a few explorers for timber, completely desert it; second, the few settlers I have named, the only permanent inhabitants, who live on the verge of it, and help raise supplies for the former; third, the hunters, mostly Indians, who range over it in their season.