Cornish wrestling was very different from that in Devon - it was less brutal, as no kicking was allowed.
The Breton peasant is said to have a hard head. He is obstinate and resists outside pressure to alter his creed or his customs.
When the British became Christian, Christianity in no way altered their political organisation.
Black was not the universal hue of mourning in Europe. In Castile, white obtained on the death of its princes.
Each man seeks his own interest, not the general interest. Let his own selfish interests be touched, and all concord is at an end.
The whole of society is like a cabbage-stalk covered with caterpillars, and none is satisfied till it has crawled to the top.
No man need go blindly to destruction, for God has given him guidance and power of seeing whither he goes.
The prime feature in Cornish geology is the upheaval of the granite, distorting, folding back, and altering the superincumbent beds.
Man, double-faced by nature, is placed by Revelation under a sharp, precise external rule, controlling his actions and his thoughts.
I went to Iceland in 1861 and went over nearly every bit of the ground made famous by the adventures of Grettir.
The tribal system from which the Celt never freed himself entirely was the curse of the Celtic race, predooming it to ruin.
Happiness is only attained by the free will agreeing in its freedom to accord with the will of God.