The chief want, in every state that I have been into, was a high and earnest purpose in its inhabitants.

It is surprising how many great men and women a small house will contain. I have had twenty-five or thirty souls, with their bodies, at once under my roof, and yet we often parted without being aware that we had come very near to one another.

In my walks I would fain return to my senses.

Politics is the gizzard of society, full of gut and gravel.

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.

A tanned skin is something more than respectable, and perhaps olive is a fitter color than white for a man,--a denizen of the woods. "The pale white man!" I do not wonder that the African pitied him.

Improve every opportunity to be melancholy.