Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.

...A traveller is to be reverenced as such. His profession is the best symbol of our life. Going from - toward; it is the history of every one of us. It is a great art to saunter.

We are sometimes made aware of a kindness long passed, and realize that there have been times when our friends' thoughts of us were of so pure and lofty a character that they passed over us like the winds of heaven unnoticed; when they treated us not as what we were, but as what we aspired to be.

It is remarkable how long men will believe in the bottomlessness of a pond without taking the trouble to sound it.

There is an orientalism in the most restless pioneer, and the farthest west is but the farthest east.

Those who, while they disapprove of the character and measures of a government, yield to it their allegiance and support are undoubtedly its most conscientious supporters, and so frequently the most serious obstacles to reform.

A journal, is a book that shall contain a record of all your joy, your ecstasy, what you are grateful for.