No man can be wise on an empty stomach.

Net the large fish and you are sure to have the small fry.

The poverty of our imagination is no measure of say the world's resources. Our posterity will no doubt get fuel in ways that we are unable to devise for them.

Surely there was something taught her by this experience of great need; and she must be learning a secret of human tenderness and long-suffering, that the less erring could hardly know?

Few things hold the perception more thoroughly captive than anxiety about what we have got to say

Best friend, my well-spring in the wilderness!

My books don't seem to belong to me after I have once written them; and I find myself delivering opinions about them as if I had nothing to do with them.