I am very blessed. The Valley is full of people, but they do not annoy me. I revolve in pathless places and in higher rocks than the world and his ribbony wife can reach.

You know that I have not lagged behind in the work of exploring our grand wilderness, and in calling everybody to come and enjoy the thousand blessings they have to offer.

Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.

The sun shines not on us but in us.

I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.

I will follow my instincts, be myself for good or ill, and see what will be the upshot.

...full of God's thoughts, a place of peace and safety amid the most exalted grandeur and enthusiastic action, a new song, a place of beginnings abounding in first lessons of life, mountain building, eternal, invincible, unbreakable order; with sermons in stone, storms, trees, flowers, and animals brimful with humanity.