The naturalist accomplishes a great deal by patience, more perhaps than by activity. He must take his position, and then wait and watch. - Henry David Thoreau

It is a very true and expressive phrase, "He looked daggers at me" for the first pattern and prototype of all daggers must have been a glance of the eye.

Did you ever hear of a man who had striven all his life faithfully and singly toward an object and in no measure obtained it? If a man constantly aspires, is he not elevated? Did ever a man try heroism, magnanimity, truth, sincerity, and find that there was no advantage in them? that it was a vain endeavor?

Perhaps the facts most astounding and most real are never communicated by man to man. The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible and indescribable as the tints of morning or evening. It is a little star-dust caught, a segment of the rainbow which I have clutched.