Each reaching and aspiration is an instinct with which all nature consists and cöoperates, and therefore it is not in vain. But alas! each relaxing and desperation is an instinct too. To be active, well, happy, implies courage. To be ready to fight in a duel or a battle implies desperation, or that you hold your life cheap.

Men must speak English who can write Sanskrit; they must speak a modern language who write, perchance, an ancient and universal one.

Thus men will lie on their backs, talking about the fall of man, and never make an effort to get up.

Only the defeated and deserters go to war.

In the mythus a superhuman intelligence uses the unconscious thoughts and dreams of men as its hieroglyphics to address men unborn.

Even Nature is observed to have her playful moods or aspects, of which man sometimes seems to be the sport.

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