"Now the last hookah has gone out, and the most restless of our servants has turned in. The roof of the cabin is strew…"

"Is not man born with a love of change — an Englishman to be discontented — an Anglo-Indian to grumble?"

"Travellers like poets are mostly an angry race."

"How Thought is imp'otent to divine the secret which the gods defend, The Why of birth and life and death, that Isis-v…"

"Cease, Man, to mourn, to weep, to wail; enjoy thy shining hour of sun; We dance along Death's icy brink, but is the d…"

"There is no God, no man-made God; a bigger, stronger, crueller man; Black phantom of our baby-fears, ere Thought, the…"

"How shall the Shown pretend to ken aught of the Showman or the Show? Why meanly bargain to believe, which only means …"

"Presently our fire being exhausted, and the enemy pressing on with spear and javelin, the position became untenable; …"

"How melancholy a thing is success. Whilst failure inspirits a man, attainment reads the sad prosy lesson that all our…"

"Grant an Idea, Primal Cause, the Causing Cause, why crave for more? Why strive its depth and breadth to mete, to trac…"