What is sour in the house a bracing walk in the woods makes sweet.

Every sunset I witness inspires me with the desire to go to West as distant and as fair as that which the sun goes down. Eastward I go only by force; but westward I go free.

If rightly made, a boat would be a sort of amphibious animal, a creature of two elements, related by one half its structure to some swift and shapely fish, and by the other to some strong-winged and graceful bird.

The devil finds work for idle hands.

For my part, I could easily do without the post-office. I think that there are very few important communications made through it.

It is tranquil people who accomplish much.

I do not see why the schoolmaster should be taxed to support the priest, and not the priest the schoolmaster.