I trust that some may be as near and dear to Buddha, or Christ, or Swedenborg, who are without the pale of their churches.

Man is an animal who more than any other can adapt himself to all climates and circumstances.

It is rare that we use our thinking faculty as resolutely as an irishman his spade. To please our friends and relatives we turn out our silver ore in cartloads, while we neglect to workour mines of gold known only to ourselves far up in the Sierras, where we pulled up a bush in our mountain walk, and saw the glittering treasure. Let us return thither. Let it be the price of our freedom to make that known.

In love and friendship the imagination is as much exercised as the heart; and if either is outraged the other will be estranged. It is commonly the imagination which is wounded first, rather than the heart,--it is so much the more sensitive.

When the reptile is attacked at one mouth of his burrow, he shows himself at another.

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

As our domestic fowls are said to have their original in the wild pheasant of India, so our domestic thoughts have their prototypes in the thoughts of her philosophers.