Perhaps of all our untamed quadrupeds, the fox has obtained the widest and most familiar reputation.... His recent tracks still give variety to a winter's walk. I tread in the steps of the fox that has gone before me by some hours, or which perhaps I have started, with such a tip-toe of expectation as if I were on the trail of the Spirit itself which resides in the wood, and expected soon to catch it in its lair.

I have been as sincere a worshipper of Aurora as the Greeks.

That aim in life is highest which requires the highest and finest discipline.

Our actual Friends are but distant relations of those to whom we are pledged.

The universe seems bankrupt as soon as we begin to discuss the characters of individuals.

Let your capital be simplicity and contentment.

Why do you ever mend your clothes, unless that, wearing them, you may mend your ways. Let us sing.