One day I caught four Dolphins, how much I have gazed at these beautiful creatures... as they changed their hue in twenty varieties of richest arrangement of tints.

July 2. A beautiful day for Labrador. Went ashore and killed nothing, but was pleased with what I saw. The country is so grandly wild and desolate that I am charmed by its wonderful dreariness.

I rise long before day and work till nightfall, when I take a walk and go to bed.

It takes a village to raise a child; that's how I basically balance it. It's twenty four hours in a day.

Rome was not built in one day.

The worse my drawings were, the more beautiful did the originals appear.