The discoveries which we make abroad are special and particular; those which we make at home are general and significant. The further off, the nearer the surface. The nearer home, the deeper.

To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.

When a man's conscience and the laws clash, it is his conscience that he must follow.

They will wait, well disposed, for others to remedy evil, that they may no longer have have it to regret.

Our sadness is not sad, but our cheap joys.

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.

The greatest and saddest defect is not credulity, but an habitual forgetfulness that our science is ignorance.