It seemed to me as if the stones sang, in the strangest voices, in the language of Ultima Thule.
I had been afraid of the awful presence of the river, which was the soul of the river, but through her [Ultima] I learned that my spirit shared in the spirit of all things.
Sometimes a man has to cry. Even if he is a man.
Thou beginnest better than thou endest. The last is inferior to the first. [Lat., Coepisti melius quam desinis. Ultima primis cedunt.]