Philanthropy is almost the only virtue which is sufficiently appreciated by mankind.

It is always singular, but encouraging, to meet with common sense in very old books, as the Heetopades of Veeshnoo Sarma; a playful wisdom which has eyes behind as well as before, and oversees itself. It asserts their health and independence of the experience of later times. This pledge of sanity cannot be spared in a book, that it sometimes pleasantly reflect upon itself.

When I would go a-visiting, I find that I go off the fashionable street,--not being inclined to change my dress,--to where man meets man, and not polished shoe meets shoe.

Music is perpetual, and only the hearing is intermittent.

Of a life of luxury the fruit is luxury, whether in agriculture, or commerce, or literature, or art.

Even the elephant carries but a small trunk on his journeys. The perfection of traveling is to travel without baggage.

Nowadays almost all man's improvements, so called, as the building of houses and the cutting down of the forest and of all large trees, simply deform the landscape, and make it more and more tame and cheap.