Why look in the dark for light?

The value of any experience is measured, of course, not by the amount of money, but the amount of development we get out of it.

Let Harlequin be taken with a fit of the colic, and his trappings will have to serve that mood too.

Death is beautiful when seen to be a law, and not an accident. It is as common as life.

Late in the afternoon we passed a man on the shore fishing with a long birch pole.... The characteristics and pursuits of various ages and races of men are always existing in epitome in every neighborhood. The pleasures of my earliest youth have become the inheritance of other men. This man is still a fisher, and belongs to an era in which I myself have lived.

For eighteen hundred years, though perchance I have no right to say it, the New Testament has been written; yet where is the legislator who has wisdom and practical talent enough to avail himself of the light which it sheds on the science of legislation?

O how I laugh when I think of my vague indefinite riches. No run on my bank can drain it, for my wealth is not possession but enjoyment.