“To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.”

“To knock a thing down when it is cocked at an arrogant angle is a deep delight of the blood.”

“We laughed at the same things, and we liked the same things. What more is needed for agreeable society?”

“I like to walk about amidst the beautiful things that adorn the world.”

“There was a distinct class of these gentlemen tramps, young men no longer young, who wouldn't settle down, who disliked polite society and the genteel conventions, but hadn't enough intelligence or enough conceit to think themselves transcendentalists or poets, in the style of Thoreau or of Walt Whitman.”

“why shouldnt things be largely absurd, futile, and transitory? they are so, and we are so, and they and we go together.”

“To feel beauty is a better thing than to understand how we come to feel it. To have imagination and taste, to love the best, to be carried by the contemplation of nature to a vivid faith in the ideal, all this is more, a great deal more, than any science can hope to be.”