Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it.

The doctors are all agreed that I am suffering for want of society. Was never a case like it. First, I did not know that I was suffering at all. Secondly, as an Irishman might say, I had thought it was indigestion of the society I got.

Let go of the past and live the future . . . Live the life you imagined.

As we lay huddled together under the tent, which leaked considerably about the sides, with our baggage at our feet, we listened to some of the grandest thunder which I ever heard, -rapid peals, round and plump, bang, bang, bang in succession, like artillery from some fortress in the sky; and the lightning was proportionally brilliant. The Indian said, 'It must be good powder.' All for the benefit of the moose and us, echoing far over the concealed lakes.

That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.

I did not know that we had ever quarreled.

If I choose to devote myself to certain labors which yield more real profit, though but little money, they may be inclined to look on me as an idler.