Did ever a man try heroism, magnanimity, truth, sincerity, and find that there was no advantage in them - that it was a vain endeavor?

Fishing has been styled 'a contemplative man's recreation,' ... and science is only a more contemplative man's recreation.

How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?

The customs of some savage nations might, perchance, be profitably imitated by us, for they at least go through the semblance of casting their slough annually; they have the idea of the thing, whether they have the reality or not.

There have been some nations who could do nothing but construct tombs, and these are the only traces which they have left. They are the heathen.

We live thick and are in each other's way, and stumble over one another, and I think we thus lose some respect for one another.

Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.