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.

Every sentence is the result of a long probation.

Knowledge is to be acquired only by a corresponding experience. How can we know what we are told merely? Each man can interpret another's experience only by his own.

Why should I feel lonely? is not our planet in the Milky Way?

If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.

It is pitiful when a man bears a name for convenience merely, who has earned neither name nor fame.

Even the best things are not equal to their fame.