The bad are frequently good enough to let you see how bad they are, but the good as frequently endeavor to get between you and themselves.

Are you in want of amusement nowadays? Then play a little at the game of getting a living. There was never anything equal to it. Do it temperately, though, and don't sweat.

The heart is forever inexperienced.

Men talk of freedom! How many are free to think? Free from fear, from perturbation, from prejudice? Nine hundred and ninety-nine in a thousand are perfect slaves.

However much we admire the orator's occasional bursts of eloquence, the noblest written words are commonly as far behind or abovethe fleeting spoken language as the firmament with its stars is behind the clouds.

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.

I should have liked to come across a large community of pines, which had never been invaded by the lumbering army.