We should read history as little critically as we consider the landscape, and be more interested by the atmospheric tints and various lights and shades which the intervening spaces create than by its groundwork and composition.

I may add that I am enjoying existence as much as ever, and regret nothing.

Give me a country where it is the most natural thing in the world for a government that does not understand you to let you alone.

But men labor under a mistake. The better part of the man is soon plowed into the soil for compost.

There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.

We must take root; send out some little fibre at least, even every winter day.

I have tasted but little bread in my life. It has been mere grub and provender for the most part. Of bread that nourished the brain and the heart, scarcely any. There is absolutely none on the tables even of the rich.