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.

'Tis a good rule in every journey to provide some piece of liberal study to rescue the hours which bad weather, bad company, and taverns steal from the best economist.

The shot heard round the world.

When there is no vision, people perish.

Never utter the truism but live it among men.

We are imprisoned in life in the company of persons powerfully unlike us.

Four snakes gliding up and down a hollow for no purpose that I could see - not to eat, not for love, but only gliding.