In my walks I would fain return to my senses.

I fear that I have not got much to say about Canada, not having seen much; what I got by going to Canada was a cold.

Books are for the most part willfully and hastily written, as parts of a system to supply a want real or imagined.

Hence it will not do for the Landlord to possess too fine a nature.... He must have no idiosyncracies, no particular bents or tendencies to this or that, but a general, uniform, and healthy development, such as his portly person indicates, offering himself equally on all sides to men.

If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.

A man cannot wheedle nor overawe his Genius. It requires to be conciliated by nobler conduct than the world demands or can appreciate.

The man of genius, like a dog with a bone, or the slave who has swallowed a diamond, or a patient with the gravel, sits afar and retired, off the road, hangs out no sign of refreshment for man and beast, but says, by all possible hints and signs, I wish to be alone,--good-by,--fare-well. But the Landlord can afford to live without privacy.