Surely one may as profitably be soaked in the juices of a swamp for one day as pick his way dry-shod over sand. Cold and damp ? are they not as rich experience as warmth and dryness?

We now no longer camp as for a night, but have settled down on earth and forgotten heaven.

That is a pathetic inquiry among travelers and geographers after the site of ancient Troy. It is not near where they think it is.When a thing is decayed and gone, how indistinct must be the place it occupied!

To live a better life,--this surely can be done.

if i repent of anything, it is very likely to be my good behavior. what demon possessed me that i behaved so well?

Those things which now most engage the attention of men, as politics and the daily routine, are, it is true, vital functions of human society, but should be unconsciously performed, like the corresponding functions of the physical body.

I do not know where to find in any literature, whether ancient or modern, any adequate account of that Nature with which I am acquainted.