When I have attempted to join myself to others by services, it proved an intellectual trick,-no more. They eat your service like apples, and leave you out. But love them, and they feel you, and delight in you all the time.

Englands genius filled all measureOf heart and soul, of strength and pleasure,Gave to the mind its emperor,And life was larger than before:Nor sequent centuries could hitOrbit and sum of Shakespeares wit. The men who lived with him becamePoets, for the air was fame.

It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence, whether a man be behind it or no.

I am ready to die out of nature, and be born again into this new yet unapproachable America I have found in the West.

I look on that man as happy, who, when there is question of success, looks into his work for a reply.

He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time.

The Times are the masquerade of the eternities; trivial to the dull, tokens of noble and majestic agents to the wise; the receptacle in which the Past leaves its history; the quarry out of which the genius of today is building up the Future.