I have found it a singular luxury to talk across the pond to a companion on the opposite side.

Individuals, like nations, must have suitable broad and natural boundaries, even a considerable neutral ground, between them.

It is after we get home that we really go over the mountain, if ever.

The fire is the main comfort of the camp, whether in summer or winter, and is about as ample at one season as at another. It is as well for cheerfulness as for warmth and dryness.

We are the subjects of an experiment which is not a little interesting to me.

It is remarkable that, notwithstanding the universal favor with which the New Testament is outwardly received, and even the bigotry with which it is defended, there is no hospitality shown to, there is no appreciation of, the order of truth with which it deals. I know of no book that has so few readers. There is none so truly strange, and heretical, and unpopular. To Christians, no less than Greeks and Jews, it is foolishness and a stumbling-block.

Every man has to learn the points of the compass again as often as he awakes, whether from sleep or any abstraction.