The poet who walks by moonlight is conscious of a tide in his thought which is to be referred to lunar influence.

The only way to tell the truth is to speak with kindness. Only the words of a loving man can be heard.

The hero is commonly the simplest and obscurest of men.

I think that the farmer displaces the Indian even because he redeems the meadow, and so makes himself stronger and in some respects more natural.

The morning wind forever blows, the poem of creation is uninterrupted; but few are the ears to hear it.

I cannot fish without falling a little in self-respect...always when I have done I feel it would have been better if I had not fished.

I do not know where to find in any literature, whether ancient or modern, any adequate account of that Nature with which I am acquainted.