The prayer of the farmer kneeling in his field to weed it, the prayer of the rower kneeling with the stroke of his oar, are true prayers heard throughout nature.

Invention breeds invention. No sooner is the electric telegraph devised than gutta-percha, the very material it requires, is found. The aeronaut is provided with gun-cotton, the very fuel he wants for his balloon.

There is one other reason for dressing well, namely that dogs respect it, and will not attack you in good clothes.

A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree.

All great men come out of the middle classes.

I shun father and mother and wife and brother, when my genius calls me.

'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.