I have taken to living by my wits.
You see, but you do not observe.
Depend upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace.
A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.
A trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still more so.
It is hardly fair to blame America for the state of San Francisco, for its population is cosmopolitan and its seaport attracts the floating vice of the Pacific; but be the cause what it may, there is much room for spiritual betterment.