The book has never been written which is to be accepted without any allowance.

The greatest tragedy in life is to spend your whole life fishing only to discover it was never fish that you were after.

Even the poor student studies and is taught only political economy, while that economy of living which is synonymous with philosophy is not even sincerely professed in our colleges. The consequence is, that while he is reading Adam Smith, Ricardo, and Say, he runs his father in debt irretrievably.

Concord's little arch does not span all our fate, nor is what transpires under it law for the universe.

Your richest veins don't lie nearest the surface.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

There should always be some flowering and maturing of the fruits of nature in the cooking process.