Far better one unpurchased heart than glory's proudest name.

Far better one unpurchased heart than glory's proudest name.

Let us recognize the beauty and power of true enthusiasm; and whatever we may do to enlighten ourselves and others, guard against checking or chilling a single earnest sentiment.

Literature is so common a luxury that the age has grown fastidious.

Travel gives a character of experience to our knowledge, and brings the figures on the tablet of memory into strong relief.

There are beauties of character which, like the night-blooming cereus, are closed against the glare and turbulence of every-day life, and bloom only in shade and solitude, and beneath the quiet stars.

The art of walking is at once suggestive of the dignity of man. Progressive motion alone implies power, but in almost every other instance it seems a power gained at the expense of self-possession.