We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience and character.

The brave man braves nothing, nor knows he of his bravery.

First, there is the power of the Wind, constantly exerted over the globe... Here is an almost incalculable power at our disposal, yet how trifling the use we make of it.

At present the globe goes with a shattered constitution in its orbit.... No doubt the simple powers of nature, properly directed by man, would make it healthy and a paradise; as the laws of man's own constitution but wait to be obeyed, to restore him to health and happiness.

I fear that he who walks over these fields a century hence will not know the pleasure of knocking off wild apples. Ah, poor man, there are many pleasures which he will not know!

There is always a present and extant life, be it better or worse, which all combine to uphold.

I am very little of a traveler.