What avails it that another loves you, if he does not understand you? Such love is a curse.

Is a democracy, such as we know it, the last improvement possible in government? Is it not possible to take a step further towardsrecognizing and organizing the rights of man?

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

Birds never sing in caves.

We seem but to linger in manhood to tell the dreams of our childhood, and they vanish out of memory ere we learn the language.

When I consider that the noble animals have been exterminated here - the cougar, panther, lynx, wolverine, wolf, bear, moose, deer, the beaver, the turkey, etc, etc - I cannot but feel as I lived in a tamed, and, as it were, emasculated country.

One may be drunk with love without being any nearer to finding his mate.