Music is perpetual, and only the hearing is intermittent.

What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

I cannot fish without falling a little in self-respect...always when I have done I feel it would have been better if I had not fished.

He who walks alone, waits for no-one.

The American has dwindled into an Odd Fellow,-one who may be known by the development of his organ of gregariousness.

There can be no very black melancholy to him who lives in the midst of Nature and has his senses still.