“There is more day left to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.”

“Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.”

“to one whose elastic and vigorous thoughts keep pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning. It matters not the labors and attitudes of men, morning is when I am awake and there is dawn in me. ”

“I have, as it were, my own sun and moon and stars, and a little world all to myself.”

“So long as a man is faithful to himself, everything is in his favor, government, society, the very sun, moon, and stars.”

“I rejoice that there are owls. Let them do the idiotic and maniacal hooting for men. It is a sound admirably suited to swamps and twilight woods which no day illustrates, suggesting a vast and undeveloped nature which men have not recognized. They represent the stark twilight and unsatisfied thoughts which all have. All day the sun has shown on the surface of some savage swamp, where the double spruce stands hung with usnea lichens, and small hawks circulate above, and the chickadee lisps amid the evergreens, and the partridge and rabbit skulk beneath; and now a more dismal and fitting day dawns, and a different race of creatures awakes to express the meaning of Nature there.”

“An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.”