He who owns little is little owned.

Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.

The repugnance to animal food is not the effect of experience, but is an instinct. It appeared more beautiful to live low and farehard in many respects; and though I never did so, I went far enough to please my imagination.

What avails it that another loves you, if he does not understand you? Such love is a curse.

...A traveller is to be reverenced as such. His profession is the best symbol of our life. Going from - toward; it is the history of every one of us. It is a great art to saunter.

We live thick and are in each other's way, and stumble over one another, and I think we thus lose some respect for one another.

It has been so written, for the most part, that the times it describes are with remarkable propriety called dark ages. They are dark, as one has observed, because we are so in the dark about them.