We shall be reduced to gnaw the very crust of the earth for nutriment.

Fishing has been styled 'a contemplative man's recreation,' ... and science is only a more contemplative man's recreation.

I think that no experience which I have today comes up to, or is comparable with, the experiences of my boyhood.

It makes no odds where a man goes or stays, if he is only about his business.

How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual friends, that we might go and meet their ideal cousins.

When the State wishes to endow an academy or university, it grants it a tract of forest land: one saw represents an academy, a gang, a university.

As our domestic fowls are said to have their original in the wild pheasant of India, so our domestic thoughts have their prototypes in the thoughts of her philosophers.