Nature is nobody’s ally.
Nature has not implanted any power in man that was not meant to be exercised at times, though too often our powers have been abused.
Moby Dick seeks thee not. It is thou, thou, that madly seekest him!
Meditation and water are wedded for ever.
Many sensible things banished from high life find an asylum among the mob.
Madman! look through my eyes if thou hast none of thine own.
Long exile from Christendom and civilization inevitably restores a man to that condition in which God placed him, i.e. what is called savagery.
Life was to these a dream fulfilled, And death a starry night.
Life is a voyage that’s homeward-bound!
Know, thou, that the lines that live are turned out of a furrowed brow.
It is only when caught in the swift, sudden turn of death, that mortals realize the silent, subtle, everpresent perils of life.
It is not down in any map; true places never are.
