What recommends commerce to me is its enterprise and bravery. It does not clasp its hands and pray to Jupiter.

We cannot see anything until we are possessed with the idea of it, take it into our heads,--and then we can hardly see anything else.

There never is but one opportunity of a kind.

I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another.

The stars are the apexes of what triangles!

Let us not play at kittly-benders. There is a solid bottom everywhere.

Today...the bluebirds, old and young, have revisited their box, as if they would fain repeat the summer without intervention of winter, if Nature would let them.