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

As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.

The theories and speculations of men concern us more than their puny accomplishment. It is with a certain coldness and languor that we loiter about the actual and so-called practical.

News Coverage!! As news expose rather than cover events.

Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it.

In short, all good things are wild and free. There is something in a strain of music, whether produced by an instrument or by thehuman voice,--take the sound of a bugle in a summer night, for instance,--which by its wildness, to speak without satire, reminds me of the cries emitted by wild beasts in their native forests. It is so much of their wildness as I can understand. Give me for my friends and neighbors wild men, not tame ones. The wildness of the savage is but a faint symbol of the awful ferity with which good men and lovers meet.

Solitude is not measured by the miles of space that intervene between a man and his fellows. The really diligent student in one of the crowded hives of Cambridge college is as solitary as a dervis in the desert.