Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.

Foolish, whenever you take the meanness and formality of that thing you do, instead of converting it into the obedient spiracle ofyour character and aims.

Although knaves win in every political struggle, although society seems to be delivered over from the hands of one set of criminals into the hands of another set of criminals, as fast as the government is changed, and the march of civilization is a train of felonies, yet, general ends are somehow answered.

Happy is the house that shelters a friend.

A fact is the end or last issue of spirit. The visible creation is the terminus or the circumference of the invisible world.

Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book; a personality which, by birth and quality, is pledged to the doctrines there set forth, and which exists to see and state things so, and not otherwise.

Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places.