I may add that I am enjoying existence as much as ever, and regret nothing.

Men go back to the mountains, as they go back to sailing ships at sea, because in the mountains and on the sea they must face up.

The knowledge of an unlearned man is living and luxuriant like a forest, but covered with mosses and lichens and for the most part inaccessible and going to waste; the knowledge of the man of science is like timber collected in yards for public works, which still supports a green sprout here and there, but even this is liable to dry rot.

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

All the past is here, present to be tried; let it approve itself if it can.

A man had better starve at once than lose his innocence in the process of getting his bread.

The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.