Every oak tree started out as a couple of nuts who stood their ground.

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.

It is impossible to say all that we think, even to our truest Friend. We may bid him farewell forever sooner than complain, for our complaint is too well grounded to be uttered.

If you indulge in long periods, you must be sure to have a snapper at the end.

Books are for the most part willfully and hastily written, as parts of a system to supply a want real or imagined.

Most men, even in this comparatively free country, through mere ignorance and mistake, are so occupied with the factitious cares and superfluously coarse labors of life that its finer fruits cannot be plucked by them.

There is in my nature, methinks, a singular yearning toward all wildness.