We perceive and are affected by changes too subtle to be described.

Insane!... Ask the tyrant who is his most dangerous foe, the sane man or the insane?

I only desire sincere relations with the worthiest of my acquaintance, that they may give me an opportunity once in a year to speak the truth.

To see wild life you must go forth at wild season.

We never exchange more than three words with a Friend in our lives on that level to which our thoughts and feelings almost habitually rise.

I have never met with a friend who furnished me sea-room. I have only tacked a few times and come to anchor - not sailed - made no voyage, carried no venture.

At death our friends and relatives either draw nearer to us and are found out, or depart farther from us and are forgotten. Friends are as often brought nearer together as separated by death.