I think I dislike what I don't like more than I like what I like.

Having once embarked on your marital voyage, it is impossible not to be aware that you make no way and the sea is not within sight; that in fact, you are exploring an enclosed basin.

Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration? After our subtlest analysis of the mental process, we must still say that our highest thoughts and our best deeds are all given to us.

For character too is a process and an unfoldingamong our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful; whose distinguished mind is a little spotted with commonness; who is a little pinched here and protruberent there with native prejudices; or whose better energies are liable to lapse down the wrong channel under the influence of transient solicitations?

Alas! the scientific conscience had got into the debasing company of money obligation and selfish respects.

Habit is the beneficent harness of routine which enables silly men to live respectfully and unhappy men to live calmly

Best friend, my well-spring in the wilderness!