When the reptile is attacked at one mouth of his burrow, he shows himself at another.

In order to die, you must first have lived.

I do not know what right I have to so much happiness, but rather hold it in reserve till the time of my desert.

I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark.

There is an incessant influx of novelty into the world, and yet we tolerate incredible dullness.

Men rush to California and Australia as if the true gold were to be found in that direction but that is to go to the very opposite extreme to where it lies. They go prospecting farther and farther away from the true lead, and are most unfortunate when they think themselves most successful.

In the meanest are all the materials of manhood, only they are not rightly disposed.