Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Sobriety, severity, and self-respect are the foundations of all true sociality.

Treat your friends for what you know them to be. Regard no surfaces. Consider not what they did, but what they intended.

A healthy man, indeed, is the complement of the seasons, and in winter, summer is in his heart.

As far back as I can remember I have unconsciously referred to the experiences of a previous state of existence.

How many things are now at loose ends! Who knows which way the wind will blow tomorrow?

The life in us is like the water in the river. It may rise this year higher than man has ever known it, and flood the parched uplands; even this may be the eventful year, which will drown out all our muskrats. It was not always dry land where we dwell. I see far inland the banks where the stream anciently washed, before science began to record its freshets.