Almost every sect of Christianity is a perversion of its essence, to accommodate it to the prejudices of the world.

The true barbarian is he who thinks everything barbarous but his own tastes and prejudices.

If our hours were all serene, we might probably take almost as little note of them, as the dial does of those that are clouded.

One of the pleasantest things in the world is going on a journey; but I like to go by myself. I can enjoy society in a room; but out of doors, nature is company enough for me. I am then never less alone than when alone.

When a person dies who does any one thing better than anyone else in the world, which so many others are trying to do well, it leaves a gap in society.

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world