If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself.

If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.

Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.

I lately met with an old volume from a London bookshop, containing the Greek Minor Poets, and it was a pleasure to read once moreonly the words Orpheus, Linus, Musæus,--those faint poetic sounds and echoes of a name, dying away on the ears of us modern men; and those hardly more substantial sounds, Mimnermus, Ibycus, Alcæus, Stesichorus, Menander. They lived not in vain. We can converse with these bodiless fames without reserve or personality.

What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.

Life is so short that it is not wise to take roundabout ways, nor can we spend much time in waiting.... We have not got half-way to dawn yet.

Furniture! Thank God, I can sit and I can stand without the aid of a furniture warehouse.