If the condition of things which we were made for is not yet, what were any reality which we can substitute? We will not be shipwrecked on a vain reality.

There are some things which a man never speaks of, which are much finer kept silent about. To the highest communications we only lend a silent ear.

I am not afraid of praise, for I have practiced it on myself.

A man might well pray that he may not taboo or curse any portion of nature by being buried in it.

Our molting season, like that of the fouls, must be a crisis in our lives.

Friendship is evanescent in every man's experience, and remembered like heat lightning in past summers.

Wherever men have lived, there is a story to be told