What is once well done is done forever.

I have no doubt that they lived pretty much the same sort of life in the Homeric age, for men have always thought more of eating than of fighting; then, as now, their minds ran chiefly on the "hot bread and sweet cakes;" and the fur and lumber trade is an old story to Asia and Europe.

How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time?

At a certain season of our life we are accustomed to consider every spot as the possible site of a house.

There should always be some flowering and maturing of the fruits of nature in the cooking process.

Keep up the fires of thought, and all will go well.

My eye is educated to discover anything on the ground, as chestnuts, etc. It is probably wholesomer to look at the ground much than at the heavens.