How prompt we are to satisfy the hunger and thirst of our bodies; how slow to satisfy the hunger and thirst of our souls!

None can be an impartial or wise observer of human life but from the vantage ground of what we should call voluntary poverty.

Rise free from care before the dawn, and seek adventures.

The intercourse of the sexes, I have dreamed, is incredibly beautiful, too fair to be remembered. I have had thoughts about it, but they are among the most fleeting and irrecoverable in my experience.

The traveler must be born again on the road, and earn a passport from the elements.

The Grecian are youthful and erring and fallen gods, with the vices of men, but in many important respects essentially of the divine race.

The highest that we can attain to is not Knowledge, but Sympathy with Intelligence.