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.

A simple woman down in Tyngsborough, at whose house I once stopped to get a draught of water, when I said, recognizing the bucket, that I had stopped there nine years before for the same purpose, asked if I was not a traveler, supposing that I had been traveling ever since, and had now come round again.

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

New ideas come into this world somewhat like falling meteors, with a flash and an explosion.

We are older by faith than by experience.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.

Genius is not a retainer to any emperor.