In most books, the I, of first person, is omitted; in this it will be retained; that, in respect to egotism, is the main difference.

Our science, so called, is always more barren and mixed with error than our sympathies.

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.

The mason asks but a narrow shelf to spring his brick from; man requires only an infinitely narrower one to spring his arch of faith from.

The wildest dreams of wild men, even, are not the less true, though they may not recommend themselves to the sense which is most common among Englishmen and Americans to-day. It is not every truth that recommends itself to the common sense. Nature has a place for the wild clematis as well as for the cabbage. Some expressions of truth are reminiscent,--others merely sensible, as the phrase is,--others prophetic.

He is the rich man, and enjoys the fruit of his riches, who summer and winter forever can find delight in his own thoughts.

We should go forth on the shortest walk, perchance in the spirit of undying adventure, never to return - sending back our embalmed hearts only as relics to our desolate kingdoms.