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

The whole of the day should not be daytime; there should be one hour, if not more, which the day did not bring forth.

It is too late to be studying Hebrew; it is more important to understand even the slang of today.

Did ever a man try heroism, magnanimity, truth, sincerity, and find that there was no advantage in them - that it was a vain endeavor?

Truth never turns to rebuke falsehood; her own straightforwardness is the severest correction.

I trust that some may be as near and dear to Buddha, or Christ, or Swedenborg, who are without the pale of their churches.

It takes a man of genius to travel in his own country, in his native village; to make any progress between his door and his gate.