Even the elephant carries but a small trunk on his journeys. The perfection of traveling is to travel without baggage.

There must be some nerve and heroism in our love, as of a winter morning.

When I would go a-visiting, I find that I go off the fashionable street,--not being inclined to change my dress,--to where man meets man, and not polished shoe meets shoe.

A truly good book is something as natural, and as unexpectedly and unaccountably fair and perfect, as a wild-flower discovered on the prairies of the West or in the jungles of the East.

The savage lives simply through ignorance and idleness or laziness, but the philosopher lives simply through wisdom.

By one bait or another, Nature allures inhabitants into all her recesses.

If men were to be destroyed and the books they have written were to be transmitted to a new race of creatures, in a new world, what kind of record would be found in them of so remarkable a phenomenon as the rainbow?