As far as intellectual training was concerned, my nine years from seven to sixteen were practically wasted.

But the mind travels far - and mysteriously - in sleep.

A victim to certain obscure forms of gout, he was in character neither stupid, nor inhuman, but he suffered from the usual drawbacks of his class, - too much money, and too few ideas.

One may as well preach a respectable mythology as anything else.

Other trades may fail. The agitator is always sure of his market.

The delight in natural things - colors, forms, scents - when there was nothing to restrain or hamper it, has often been a kind of intoxication, in which thought and consciousness seemed suspended.

... the strictness of to-day may have at any moment to be purchased by the laxity of to-morrow.