To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun.

The Indian who was laid under a curse, that the wind should not blow on him, nor water flow to him, nor fire burn him, is a type of us all. The dearest events are summer-rain, and we the Para coats that shed every drop. Nothing is left us now but death. We look to that with a grim satisfaction, saying, there at least is reality that will not dodge us.

Marriage is the perfection which love aimed at, ignorant of what it sought.

A man should carry nature in his head.

Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth that around every circle another can be drawn; that there is no end in nature, but every end is a beginning, and under every deep a lower deep opens.

Proportion is almost impossible to human beings. There is no one who does not exaggerate.

The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.