We must look a long time before we can see

I thrive best on solitude. If I have had a companion only one day in a week, unless it were one or two I could name, I find that the value of the week to me has been seriously affected. It dissipates my days, and often it takes me another week to get over it.

Being a teacher is like being in jail; once it's on your record, you can never get rid of it.

Continued traveling is far from productive. It begins with wearing away the soles of the shoes, and making the feet sore, and erelong it will wear a man clean up, after making his heart sore into the bargain. I have observed that the afterlife of those who have traveled much is very pathetic.

The fishermen say that the "thundering of the pond" scares the fishes and prevents their biting.

I believe that there is a subtle magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us aright.

Any moral philosophy is exceedingly rare. This of Menu addresses our privacy more than most. It is a more private and familiar, and at the same time, a more public and universal word, than is spoken in parlor or pulpit nowadays.