This is a common experience in my traveling. I plod along, thinking what a miserable world this is and what miserable fellows we that inhabit it, wondering what it is tempts men to live in it; but anon I leave the towns behind and am lost in some boundless heath, and life becomes gradually more tolerable, if not even glorious.

If you would be chaste, you must be temperate.

They will wait, well disposed, for others to remedy evil, that they may no longer have have it to regret.

In society you will not find health, but in nature. Unless our feet at least stood in the midst of nature, all our faces would bepale and livid. Society is always diseased, and the best is the most so.

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.

I am very little of a traveler.