Man needs to know but little more than a lobster in order to catch him in his traps.

The Iliad represents no creed nor opinion, and we read it with a rare sense of freedom and irresponsibility, as if we trod on native ground, and were autochthones of the soil.

Instead of studying how to make it worth men's while to buy my baskets, I studied rather how to avoid the necessity of selling them.

Let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature, and not be thrown off the track by every nutshell and mosquito's wing that falls on the rails.

There is considerable danger that a man will be crazy between dinner and supper; but it will not directly answer any good purposethat I know of, and it is just as easy to be sane.

Not till we are completely lost, or turned round, do we appreciate the vastness and strangeness of Nature.

There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect.