“In life there are certain sores that, like a canker, gnaw at the soul in solitude and diminish it.”

“There are sores which slowly erode the mind in solitude like a kind of canker.”

“To the receptive soul the river of life pauseth not, nor is diminished.”

“If religions are diseases of the human psyche, as the philosopher Grintholde asserts, then religious wars must be reckoned the resultant sores and cankers infecting the aggregate corpus of the human race. Of all wars, these are the most detestable, since they are waged for no tangible gain, but only to impose a set of arbitrary credos upon another's mind.”

“But the solitude in Ohio is different from that of most other places. There is a certain silence to it, a certain loneliness.”

“There is a solitude of space,A solitude of sea,A solitude of death, but theseSociety shall be,Compared with that profounder site,That polar privacy,A Soul admitted to itself:Finite infinity.”