It enhances our sense of the grand security and serenity of nature to observe the still undisturbed economy and content of the fishes of this century, their happiness a regular fruit of the summer.

If you chance to live and move and have your being in that thin stratum in which the events that make the news transpire,--thinnerthan the paper on which it is printed,--then these things will fill the world for you; but if you soar above or dive below that plane, you cannot remember nor be reminded of them.

Here I am thirty-four years old, and yet my life is almost wholly unexpanded. How much time is in the germ! There is such an interval between my ideal and the actual in many circumstances that I may say I am unborn.

I had a classmate who fitted for college by the lamps of a lighthouse, which was more light, we think, than the University afforded.

I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government

Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.

Give me a country where it is the most natural thing in the world for a government that does not understand you to let you alone.