We are all of us more or less active physiognomists.

As the least drop of wine tinges the whole goblet, so the least particle of truth colors our whole life.

I believe that water is the only drink for a wise man.

To forget all about your mistakes adds to them perhaps.

We have need to be as sturdy pioneers still as Miles Standish, or Church, or Lovewell. We are to follow on another trail, it is true, but one as convenient for ambushes. What if the Indians are exterminated, are not savages as grim prowling about the clearings today?

I have found that hollow, which even I had relied on for solid.

Instead of studying how to make it worth men's while to buy my baskets, I studied rather how to avoid the necessity of selling them.