Consider the islands bearing the names of all the saints, bristling with forts like chestnut-burs, or Echinidæ, yet the police will not let a couple of Irishmen have a private sparring- match on one of them, as it is a government monopoly; all the great seaports are in a boxing attitude, and you must sail prudently between two tiers of stony knuckles before you come to feel the warmth of their breasts.

It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.

Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the machine. What I have to do is to see, at any rate, that I do not lend myself to the wrong which I condemn.

He is not a true man of science who does not bring some sympathy to his studies, and expect to learn something by behaviour as well as application.

I am awaked almost every night by the panting of the locomotive. It interrupts my dreams. There is no sabbath.

The man who does not betake himself at once and desperately to sawing is called a loafer, though he may be knocking at the doors of heaven all the while.

Love does not analyze its object.