Here it is about gentlemen of fortune. They lives rough, and they risk swinging, but they eat and drink like fighting-cocks, and when a cruise is done, why, it's hundreds of pounds instead of hundreds of farthings in their pockets.

Anyone can carry their burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do their work, however hard, for one day.

Strange indeed is the attraction of the forest for the minds of men.

Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.

For the forest takes away from you all excuse to die. There is nothing here to cabin or thwart your free desires. Here all impudences of the brawling world reach you no more.

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

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.