The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.

People who write finely must not expect to be left in repose; they will be molested with thanks, at least.

We are not apt to fear for the fearless, when we are companions in their danger.

Our instructed vagrancy, which has hardly time to linger by the hedgerows, but runs away early to the tropics, and is at home with palms and banyans - which is nourished on books of travel, and stretches the theatre of its imagination to the Zambesi.

It is a common sentence that Knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of Ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down. Knowledge, through patient and frugal centuries, enlarges discovery and makes record of it; Ignorance, wanting its day's dinner, lights a fire with the record, and gives a flavour to its one roast with the burnt souls of many generations.

Death is the only physician, the shadow of his valley the only journeying that will cure us of age and the gathering fatigue of years.

Uncomfortable thoughts must be got rid of by good intentions for the future.