I begin to see an object when I cease to understand it.

I was not born to be forced.

There may be something petty in a refined taste; it easily degenerates into effeminacy. It does not consider the broadest use. It is not content with simple good and bad, and so is fastidious and curious or nice only.

The boy gathers materials for a temple, and then when he is thirty, concludes to build a woodshed.

Men are as innocent as the morning to the unsuspicious.

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

I have found it to be the most serious objection to coarse labors long continued, that they compelled me to eat and drink coarsely also.