Truth is his inspirer, and earnestness the polisher of his sentences. He could afford to lose his Sharp's rifles, while he retained his faculty of speech,--a Sharp's rifle of infinitely surer and longer range.

Open all your pores and bathe in all the tides of nature, in all her streams and oceans, at all seasons.

A man may travel fast enough and earn his living on the road.

The fact is, mental philosophy is very like Poverty, which, you know, begins at home; and indeed, when it goes abroad, it is poverty itself.

Go confidently ... Live the life that you imagined.

What demon possessed me that I behaved so well?

All nations love the same jests and tales, Jews, Christians, and Mahometans, and the same translated suffice for all.