In self-trust all the virtues are comprehended.

My book should smell of pines and resound with the hum of insects.

Whatever appeals to the imagination, by transcending the ordinary limits of human ability, wonderfully encourages and liberates us.

These times of ours are series and full of calamity, but all times are essentially alike. As soon as there is life there is danger.

A man must consider what a blindman's-buff is this game of conformity.

One lesson we learn early, that in spite of seeming difference, men are all of one pattern. We readily assume this with our mates, and are disappointed and angry if we find that we are premature, and that their watches are slower than ours. In fact, the only sin which we never forgive in each other is difference of opinion.

The secret of drunkenness is, that it insulates us in thought, whilst it unites us in feeling.