“We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we are observing
“The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.
“The day is done, and the darkness, falls from the wings of night, as a feather is wafted downward, from an eagle in his flight
“Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral
“A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world
“Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them
“The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides
“Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.
“Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense