We travel to learn; and I have never been in any country where they did not do something better than we do it, think some thoughts better than we think, catch some inspiration from heights above our own.

To read a book, to think it over, and to write out notes is a useful exercise; a book which will not repay some hard thought is not worth publishing.

It is sad to see a woman sacrificing the ties of the affections even to do good.

I was born, for instance, incapable of appreciating music.

Let us secure not such books as people want, but books just above their wants, and they will reach up to take what is put out for them.

But why look back at all? Why turn your eyes to your shadow, when, by looking upward, you see your rainbow in the same direction?

I am always the better for open-air breathing, and was certainly meant for the wandering life of the Indian.