What a singular fact for an angel visitant to this earth to carry back in his note-book, that men were forbidden to expose their bodies under the severest penalties!

The schools begin with what they call the elements, and where do they end?

Time hides no treasures; we want not its then, but its now.

There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.

If you would learn to speak all tongues and conform to the customs of all nations, if you would travel farther than all travellers, be naturalized in all climes, and cause the Sphinx to dash her head against a stone, even obey the precept of the old philosopher, and Explore thyself. Herein are demanded the eye and the nerve. Only the defeated and deserters go to the wars, cowards that run away and enlist.

Morning is when I am awake and there is a dawn in me.

What demon possessed me that I behaved so well?