The sacredness, if there is any, is all in yourself and not in the place.

Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short.

I am not responsible for the successful working of the machinery of society.

The best way to correct a mistake is to make it right.

The prosaic man sees things badly, or with the bodily sense; but the poet sees them clad in beauty, with the spiritual sense.

Linnæus, setting out for Lapland, surveys his "comb" and "spare shirt," "leathern breeches" and "gauze cap to keep off gnats," with as much complacency as Bonaparte a park of artillery for the Russian campaign. The quiet bravery of the man is admirable.

We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.