So easy is it, though many housekeepers doubt it, to establish new and better customs in the place of the old.

One may be drunk with love without being any nearer to finding his mate.

The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.

The intellect is a cleaver; it discerns and rifts its way into the secrets of things.

Despair and postponement are cowardice and defeat. Men were born to succeed, not to fail.

Half the walk is but retracing our steps. We should go forth on the shortest walk, perchance, in the spirit of undying adventure, never to return-prepared to send beck our embalmed hearts only as relics to our desolate kingdoms. If you are ready to leave father and mother, brother and sister, and wife and child and friends and never see them again,-if you have paid your debts and made your will, and settled your affairs and are a free man, then you are ready for a walk.

I was awakened at midnight by some heavy, low-flying bird, probably a loon, flapping by close over my head, along the shore. So, turning the other side of my half-clad body to the fire, I sought slumber again.