Unquestionably we do stand by our national flag as stoutly as any people in the world; and I myself have felt the heart-throb at sight of it, as sensibly as other men.

Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.

Come, therefore, and let us fling mud at them!

We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.

Life, within doors, has few pleasanter prospects than a neatly-arranged and well-provisioned breakfast-table.

What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!

The trees reflected in the river - they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.