It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.

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.

One may as well dam for water tanks the people's cathedrals and churches, for no holier temple has ever been consecrated by the heart of man.

But to gain a perfect view, one must go yet further, over a curving brow to a slight shelf on the extreme brink.

No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.

Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant.

I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.