The only people who ever get anyplace interesting are the people who get lost.

A familiar name cannot make a man less strange to me. It may be given to a savage who retains in secret his own wild title earnedin the woods. We have a wild savage in us, and a savage name is perchance somewhere recorded as ours.

Shall I not rejoice also at the abundance of the weeds whose seeds are the granary of the birds?

The next time the novelist rings the bell I will not stir though the meeting-house burn down.

It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.

It is too late to be studying Hebrew; it is more important to understand even the slang of today.

It is a relief to read some true book, wherein all are equally dead,--equally alive. I think the best parts of Shakespeare would only be enhanced by the most thrilling and affecting events. I have found it so. And so much the more, as they are not intended for consolation.