The scenery when it is truly seen reacts on the life of the seer.

We should endeavor practically in our lives to correct all the defects which our imagination detects.

The ocean is a wilderness reaching round the globe, wilder than a Bengal jungle, and fuller of monsters, washing the very wharves of our cities and the gardens of our sea-side residences.

A man may grow rich in Turkey even, if he will be in all respects a good subject of the Turkish government.

Friends will not only live in harmony, but in melody.

It is not every man who can be a Christian, even in a very moderate sense, whatever education you give him. It is a matter of constitution and temperament, after all. He may have to be born again many times. I have known many a man who pretended to be a Christian, in whom it was ridiculous, for he had no genius for it. It is not every man who can be a free man, even.

But they who are unconcerned about the consequences of their actions are not therefore unconcerned about their actions.