This world is a place of business. What an infinite bustle!

It is far more independent to travel on foot. You have to sacrifice so much to the horse. You cannot choose the most agreeable places in which to spend the noon., commanding the finest views, because commonly there is no water there, or you cannot get there with your horse.

I am wont to think that men are not so much the keepers of herds as herds are the keepers of men. The former are so much the freer.

Few, if any, creatures are equally active all night.

In my short experience of human life, the outward obstacles, if there were any such, have not been living men, but the institutions of the dead.

Our taste is too delicate and particular. It says nay to the poet's work, but never yea to his hope.

The Mississippi, the Ganges, and the Nile,... the Rocky Mountains, the Himmaleh, and Mountains of the Moon, have a kind of personal importance in the annals of the world.