In our most trivial walks, we are constantly, though unconsciously, steering like pilots by certain well-known beacons and headlands, and if we go beyond our usual course we still carry in our minds the bearing of some neighboring cape; and not till we are completely lost, or turned round -- for a man needs only to be turned round once with his eyes shut in this world to be lost -- do we appreciate the vastness and strangeness of nature. Every man has to learn the points of compass again as often as be awakes, whether from sleep or any abstraction. Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves , and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations.
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Though the country seemed so new, and no house was observed by us, shut in between the banks that sunny day, we did not have to travel far to ...
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Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title.
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Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title.
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