be yourself- not your idea of what you think somebody else's idea of yourself should be.

There is no ill which may not be dissipated, like the dark, if you let in a stronger light upon it.

The volatile truth of our words should continually betray the inadequacy of the residual statement.

Within the memory of many of my townsmen the road near which my house stands resounded with the laugh and gossip of inhabitants, and the woods which border it were notched and dotted here and there with their little gardens and dwellings, though it was then much more shut in by the forest than now.

The husbandman is always a better Greek than the scholar is prepared to appreciate, and the old custom still survives, while antiquarians and scholars grow gray in commemorating it.

The fishermen say that the "thundering of the pond" scares the fishes and prevents their biting.

The most domestic cat, which has lain on a rug all her days, appears quite at home in the woods, and, by her sly and stealthy behavior, proves herself more native there than the regular inhabitants.