My doom and my strength is to be solitary.

Or whipping its rough surface for a trout.

I wish to speak with all respect of persons, but sometimes I must pinch myself to keep awake, and preserve the due decorum. They melt so fast into each other, that they are like grass and trees, and it needs an effort to treat them as individuals.

The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds some important benefit.

The field cannot be seen from within the field.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

We stand against fate, as children stand up against the wall in their father's house, and notch their height from year to year. But when the boy grows to a man, and is master of the house, he pulls down that wall and builds it new and bigger.