There are times when we have had enough even of our Friends.

Let us consider under what disadvantages Science has hitherto labored before we pronounce thus confidently on her progress.

To say that a man is your Friend means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy.

You think that I am impoverishing myself withdrawing from men, but in my solitude I have woven for myself a silken web or chrysalis, and, nymph-like, shall ere long burst forth a more perfect creature, fitted for a higher society.

There is a difference between eating and drinking for strength and from mere gluttony.

I like sometimes to take rank hold on life and spend my day more as the animals do. Perhaps I have owed to this employment and tohunting, when quite young, my closest acquaintance with Nature. They early introduce us to and detain us in scenery with which otherwise, at that age, we should have little acquaintance.

No man who acts from a sense of duty ever puts the lesser duty above the greater. No man has the desire and the ability to work onhigh things, but he has also the ability to build himself a high staging.