A familiar name cannot make a man less strange to me. It may be given to a savage who retains in secret his own wild title earnedin the woods. We have a wild savage in us, and a savage name is perchance somewhere recorded as ours.

As a man thinks of himself, so he is.

I lose my respect for the man who can make the mystery of sex the subject of a coarse jest, yet when you speak earnestly and seriously on the subject, is silent.

I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid, and I have not the least doubt that it will stand a good while.

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

To a small man every greater is an exaggeration.

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