There are two classes of authors: the one write the history of their times, the other their biography.

The sport of digging the bait is nearly equal to that of catching the fish, when one's appetite is not too keen.

A man's interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.

My desire for knowledge is intermittent; but my desire to bathe my head in atmospheres unknown to my feet is perennial and constant. The highest that we can attain to is not Knowledge, but Sympathy with Intelligence. I do not know that this higher knowledge amounts to anything more definite than a novel and grand surprise on a sudden revelation of the insufficiency of all that we called Knowledge before,—a discovery that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in our philosophy.

The man who thrusts his manners upon me does as if he were to insist on introducing me to his cabinet of curiosities, when I wished to see himself.

Faint heart never won true friend. O my friend, may it come to pass, once, that when you are my friend I may be yours.

The only danger in Friendship is that it will end.