That is a pathetic inquiry among travelers and geographers after the site of ancient Troy. It is not near where they think it is.When a thing is decayed and gone, how indistinct must be the place it occupied!

Real power is measured by how much you can let things be.

And so the seasons went rolling on into summer, as one rambles into higher and higher grass.

As the least drop of wine tinges the whole goblet, so the least particle of truth colors our whole life.

I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.

There are other letters for the child to learn than those which Cadmus invented. The Spaniards have a good term to express this wild and dusky knolwedge, Grammatica parda, tawny grammar, a kind of mother-wit derived from that same leopard to which I have referred.

As for men, they will hardly fail one anywhere. I had more visitors while I lived in the woods than at any other period of my life; I mean that I had some.