Biography, too, is liable to the same objection; it should be autobiography. Let us not, as the Germans advise, endeavor to go abroad and vex our bowels that we may be somebody else to explain him. If I am not I, who will be?

He who walks alone, waits for no-one.

There are theoretical reformers at all times, and all the world over, living on anticipation.

The mass never comes up to the standard of its best member, but on the contrary degrades itself to a level with the lowest.

I turned my face more exclusively than ever to the woods, where I was better known.

A man's ignorance sometimes is not only useful, but beautiful-while his knowledge, so called, is oftentimes worse than useless, besides being ugly.

The most attractive sentences are not perhaps the wisest, but the surest and soundest.