The other side of the globe is but the home of our correspondent. Our voyaging is only great-circle sailing.

I long ago lost a hound, a bay horse, and a turtle-dove, and am still on their trail. Many are the travellers I have spoken concerning them, describing their tracks and what calls they answered to. I have met one or two who had heard the hound, and the tramp of the horse, and even seen the dove disappear behind a cloud, and they seemed as anxious to recover them as if they had lost them themselves.

Rescue the drowning and tie your shoestrings.

The whole of the day should not be daytime; there should be one hour, if not more, which the day did not bring forth.

All endeavour calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil.

I thought, as I have my living to get, and have not eaten today, that I might go a- fishing. That's the true industry for poets. It is the only trade I have learned.

What an admirable training is science for the more active warfare of life! Indeed, the unchallenged bravery which these studies imply, is far more impressive than the trumpeted valor of the warrior.