The civilized man is a larger mind but a more imperfect nature than the savage.

I fear I have not one good word to say this fair morning, though the sun shines so encouragingly on the distant hills and gentle river and the trees are in their festive hues. I am not festive, though contented. When obliged to give myself to the prose of life, as I am on this occasion of being established in a new home I like to do the thing, wholly and quite, - to weave my web for the day solely from the grey yarn.

Drudgery is as necessary to call out the treasures of the mind, as harrowing and planting those of the earth.

Man is not made for society, but society is made for man. No institution can be good which does not tend to improve the individual.

Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.

Let no one dare to call another mad who is not himself willing to rank in the same class for every perversion and fault of judgment. Let no one dare aid in punishing another as criminal who is not willing to suffer the penalty due to his own offenses.

If anything can be invented more excruciating than an English Opera, such as was the fashion at the time I was in London, I am sure no sin of mine deserves the punishment of bearing it.