The largest pond is as sensitive to atmospheric changes as the globule of mercury in its tube.

When we bring what is within out into the world, miracles happen.

The earth I tread on is not a dead inert mass. It is a body, has a spirit; is organic and fluid to the influence of its spirit and to whatever particle of the spirit is in me.

My neighbors tell me of their adventures with famous gentlemen and ladies, what notabilities they met at the dinner-table; but I am no more interested in such things than in the contents of the Daily Times. The interest and the conversation are about costume and manners chiefly; but a goose is a goose still, dress it as you will.

On tops of mountains, as everywhere to hopeful souls, it is always morning.

My enemies are worms, cool days, and most of all woodchucks.

I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.