I am accustomed to think very long of going anywhere,--am slow to move. I hope to hear a response of the oracle first.

How many things there are concerning which we might well deliberate whether we had better know them.

There are nowadays professors of philosophy, but not philosophers

I often accuse my finest acquaintances of an immense frivolity; for, while there are manners and compliments we do not meet, we donot teach one another the lessons of honesty and sincerity that the brutes do, or of steadiness and solidity that the rocks do. The fault is commonly mutual; however, for we do not habitually demand any more of each other.

You only need sit still long enough in some attractive spot in the woods that all its inhabitants may exhibit themselves to you by turns.

We discover a new world every time we see the earth again after it has been covered for a season with snow.

I see less difference between a city and a swamp than formerly.