Only the traveling is good which reveals to me the value of home and enables me to enjoy it better.

I derive no pleasure from talking with a young woman simply because she has regular features.

There is no treatment for adore, but to love far more.

As for the tenets of the Brahmans, we are not so much concerned to know what doctrines they held, as that they were held by any. We can tolerate all philosophies.... It is the attitude of these men, more than any communication which they make, that attracts us.

When the ground was partially bare of snow, and a few warm days had dried its surface somewhat, it was pleasant to compare the first tender signs of the infant year just peeping forth with the stately beauty of the withered vegetation which had withstood the winterdecent weeds, at least, which widowed Nature wears.

First, there is the power of the Wind, constantly exerted over the globe... Here is an almost incalculable power at our disposal, yet how trifling the use we make of it.

In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.