Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.

Books are to be distinguished by the grandeur of their topics even more than by the manner in which they are treated.

I have never met with a friend who furnished me sea-room. I have only tacked a few times and come to anchor - not sailed - made no voyage, carried no venture.

Asked whether or not he believed in an afterlife, Thoreau quipped, "One world at a time."

A goal is a dream taken seriously.

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.

A healthy man, indeed, is the complement of the seasons, and in winter, summer is in his heart.