Most people dread finding out when they come to die that they have never really lived.

Each reader discovers for himself that, with respect to the simpler features of nature, succeeding poets have done little else than copy his similes.

They take great pride in making their dinner cost much; I take my pride in making my dinner cost so little.

To be awake is to be completely alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake.

If you are chosen town clerk, forsooth, you cannot go to Tierra del Fuego this summer; but you may go to the land of infernal fire nevertheless.

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.

Much is published, but little printed.