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

Some simple dishes recommend themselves to our imaginations as well as palates.

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

I am no more lonely than the loon in the pond that laughs so loud, or than Walden Pond itself. What company has that lonely lake,I pray?

Whatever is, and is not ashamed to be, is good.

I do not remember anything which Confucius has said directly respecting man's "origin, purpose, and destiny." He was more practical than that. He is full of wisdom applied to human relations,--to the private life,--the family,--government, etc. It is remarkable that, according to his own account, the sum and substance of his teaching is, as you know, to do as you would be done by.

We should read history as little critically as we consider the landscape, and be more interested by the atmospheric tints and various lights and shades which the intervening spaces create than by its groundwork and composition.