Every sentence is the result of a long probation.

If you would feel the full force of a tempest, take up your residence on the top of Mount Washington, or at the Highland Light, inTruro.

Everything that is printed and bound in a book contains some echo at least of the best that is in literature.

To forget all about your mistakes adds to them perhaps.

Have we even so much as discovered and settled the shores? Let a man travel on foot along the coastand tell me if it looks like a discovered and settled country, and not rather, for the most part, like a desolate island, and No-Man's Land.

The true finish is the work of time, and the use to which a thing is put. The elements are still polishing the pyramids.

The thoughtful man becomes a hermit in the thoroughfares of the marketplace.