I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.

It is difficult to begin without borrowing, but perhaps it is the most generous course thus to permit your fellowmen to have an interest in your enterprise.

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

That government is best which governs not at all; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have.

I felt a positive yearning toward one bush this afternoon. There was a match found for me at last. I fell in love with a shrub oak.

How can you expect the birds to sing when their groves are cut down?

Rise free from care before the dawn, and seek adventures.