There is an orientalism in the most restless pioneer, and the farthest west is but the farthest east.

To be awake is to be alive.

I have learned that the swiftest traveller is he that goes afoot.

We are all of us more or less active physiognomists.

Consider the islands bearing the names of all the saints, bristling with forts like chestnut-burs, or Echinidæ, yet the police will not let a couple of Irishmen have a private sparring- match on one of them, as it is a government monopoly; all the great seaports are in a boxing attitude, and you must sail prudently between two tiers of stony knuckles before you come to feel the warmth of their breasts.

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

One can hardly imagine a more healthful employment, or one more favorable to contemplation and the observation of nature.