💬 Quotes

"There is a periodicity in human life. We are perpetually casting off a world of our own creation, and entering a new, perilous phase."

"He wanted so much to be of the feminine world, to be within the circle of the golden mist of womanhood."

"We are all of us separate entities, we are all of us distinct and individual. Why should we strive to be at one, except in our transcendence?"

"Knowledge is a deathly thing. It is the destruction of all intuitive being."

"She was a daughter of modern growth, and she was weary of it. A civilization was breaking down inside her."

"He was the substance, she was the shadow. No, that was not right. They were two distinct elements, balancing each other."

"The wrongdoing of one generation lives into the successive ones, and, visiting the sin upon the children, becomes a pure and uncontrollable mischief."

"Human nature, in the crowded city, is a composite of sharp and cruel faculties; but in the country, it is a milder thing, out of which often grows the best of life."

"Shall we never, then, be quit of them? Shall we always live in the shadow of this great brick pile?"

"A high-spirited, noble girl can afford to be poor, and knows it; but a man is a pauper, when his spirit is crushed."

"What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart? What jailer so inexorable as one's self?"

"Let us acknowledge it for a proud misfortune that we have met thus early. The heart will not always be cheated."

"The path to the woods is as free to the red man as to the white."

"He is a man who loves the forest because the forest does not lie."

"There is a time for the tongue to speak and a time for the heart to hold its peace."

"To judgment in the woods, a man must bring something more than the learning of the settlements."

"A white man's gifts are Christian gifts, and natur' gives the red-skin his fashions."

"The citadel of nature is best defended by those who know her simplest moods."

"Le temps n'est plus où l'on pouvait s'embarquer pour une partie du monde inconnue."

"Un homme qui est riche n'a pas besoin d'être original, l'originalité dépend souvent des moyens."