Some day...after I am dead, you may perhaps come to learn the right and wrong of this. I cannot tell you.

The spirit of delight comes in small ways.

To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

Every man is his own doctor of divinity, in the last resort.

To be honest, to be kind-to earn a little and to spend a little less, to make upon the whole a family happier for his presence, to renounce when that shall be necessary and not be embittered, to keep a few friends but these without capitulation-above all, on the same grim condition to keep friends with himself-here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude and delicacy.

The seeming significance of nature's appearances, their unchanging strangeness to the senses, and the thrilling response which they awaken in the mind of man . . . If we could only write near enough to the facts, and yet with no pedestrian calm, but ardently, we might transfer the glamour of reality direct upon our pages.