It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.

I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another.

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.

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

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.

I already, and for weeks afterward, felt my nature the coarser for this part of my woodland experience, and was reminded that ourlife should be lived as tenderly and daintily as one would pluck a flower.

There is none who does not lie hourly in the respect he pays to false appearance.