All perception of truth is the detection of an analogy.

We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience and character.

I learned from my two years' experience that it would cost incredibly little trouble to obtain one's necessary food; that a man may use as simple a diet as the animals, and yet retain health and strength.

What a singular fact for an angel visitant to this earth to carry back in his note-book, that men were forbidden to expose their bodies under the severest penalties!

There may be something petty in a refined taste; it easily degenerates into effeminacy. It does not consider the broadest use. It is not content with simple good and bad, and so is fastidious and curious or nice only.

I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.

In sane moments we regard only the facts, the case that is.