One must travel, to learn. Every day, now, old Scriptural phrases that never possessed any significance for me before, take to themselves a meaning.

No one is sane, straight along, year in and year out, and we all know it. Our insanities are of varying sorts, and express themselves in varying forms-fortunately harmless forms as a rule.

You are a coward when you even seem to have backed down from a thing you openly set out to do

Honest poverty is a gem that even a king might be proud to call his own - but I wish to sell out

The moral of it is this: If you are of any account, stay at home and make your way by faithful diligence; but if you are 'no account,' go away from home, and then you will have to work, whether you want to or not. Thus you become a blessing to your friends by ceasing to be a nuisance to them-if the people you go among suffer by the operation.

Every man is wholly honest to himself and to God, but not to any one else.

A street in Constantinople is a picture which one ought to see once-not oftener.