Such a man has some right to fish, and I love to see nature carried out in him.

This curious world we inhabit is more wonderful than convenient; more beautiful than it is useful; it is more to be admired and enjoyed than used.

In eternity there is indeed something true and sublime. But all these times and places and occasions are now and here. God himself culminates in the present moment and will never be more divine in the lapse of the ages. Time is but a stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it, but when I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away but eternity remains.

We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect. [So why not suspect good rather than bad in events, people and life and thereby find it more?]

The Ethiopian cannot change his skin nor the leopard his spots.

Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.

We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.