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

The virtue which we appreciate, we to some extent appropriate.

He who distinguishes the true savor of his food can never be a glutton; he who does not cannot be otherwise.

In the religion of all nations a purity is hinted at, which, I fear, men never attain to.

In our most trivial walks, we are constantly, though unconsciously, steering like pilots by certain well-known beacons and headlands, and if we go beyond our usual course we still carry in our minds the bearing of some neighboring cape; and not till we are completely lost, or turned round,--for a man needs only to be turned round once with his eyes shut in this world to be lost,--do we appreciate the vastness and strangeness of nature.

Continued traveling is far from productive. It begins with wearing away the soles of the shoes, and making the feet sore, and erelong it will wear a man clean up, after making his heart sore into the bargain. I have observed that the afterlife of those who have traveled much is very pathetic.

It is the art of mankind to polish the world, and every one who works is scrubbing in some part.