Blessed are they who never read a newspaper, for they shall see Nature, and through her, God.

Almost any mode of observation will be successful at last, for what is most wanted is method.

Some have asked if the stock of men could not be improved,--if they could not be bred as cattle. Let Love be purified, and all therest will follow. A pure love is thus, indeed, the panacea for all the ills of the world.

You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure.

Improve every opportunity to be melancholy.

All nations love the same jests and tales, Jews, Christians, and Mahometans, and the same translated suffice for all.

A man must generally get away some hundreds or thousands of miles from home before he can be said to begin his travels. Why not begin his travels at home? Would he have to go far or look very closely to discover novelties? The traveler who, in this sense, pursues his travels at home, has the advantage at any rate of a long residence in the country to make his observations correct and profitable. Now the American goes to England, while the Englishman comes to America, in order to describe the country.