I find it so difficult to dispose of the few facts which to me are significant, that I hesitate to burden my attention with thosewhich are insignificant, which only a divine mind could illustrate. Such is, for the most part, the news in newspapers and conversation.

If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?

I may add that I am enjoying existence as much as ever, and regret nothing.

He who is conversant with the supernal powers will not worship these inferior deities of the wind, waves, tide, and sunshine. Butwe would not disparage the importance of such calculations as we have described. They are truths in physics because they are true in ethics.

Alas! the culture of an Irishman is an enterprise to be undertaken with a sort of moral bog hoe.

So soon did we, wayfarers, begin to learn that man's life is rounded with the same few facts, the same simple relations everywhere, and it is vain to travel to find it new.

Nothing but great antiquity can make graveyards interesting to me. I have no friends there.