A man had better starve at once than lose his innocence in the process of getting his bread.

We now no longer camp as for a night, but have settled down on earth and forgotten heaven.

The researcher is more memorable than the researched.

Nature is an admirable schoolmistress.

There is but one stage for the peasant and the actor.

A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener.

You ask if there is no doctrine of sorrow in my philosophy. Of acute sorrow I suppose that I know comparatively little. My saddestand most genuine sorrows are apt to be but transient regrets. The place of sorrow is supplied, perchance, by a certain hard and proportionately barren indifference. I am of kin to the sod, and partake of its dull patience,--in winter expecting the sun of spring.