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

Eastward I go only by force; but westward I go free.

I am from time to time congratulating myself on my general want of success as a lecturer; apparent want of success, but is it nota real triumph? I do my work clean as I go along, and they will not be likely to want me anywhere again. So there is no danger of my repeating myself, and getting to a barrel of sermons, which you must upset, and begin again with.

Our panaceas cure but few ails, our general hospitals are private and exclusive. We must set up another Hygeia than is now worshiped. Do not the quacks even direct small doses for children, larger for adults, and larger still for oxen and horses? Let us remember that we are to prescribe for the globe itself.

There have been some nations who could do nothing but construct tombs, and these are the only traces which they have left. They are the heathen.

The effect of a good government is to make life more valuable; of a bad one, to make it less valuable.

Both place and time were changed, and I dwelt nearer to those parts of the universe and to those eras in history which had most attracted me.