You will pardon some obscurities, for there are more secrets in my trade than in most men's, and yet not voluntarily kept, but inseparable from its very nature. I would gladly tell all that I know about it, and never paint "No Admittance" on my gate.

You cannot hear music and noise at the same time.

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.

The greatest tragedy in life is to spend your whole life fishing only to discover it was never fish that you were after.

I am too easily contented with a slight and almost animal happiness. My happiness is a good deal like that of the woodchucks.

The Mississippi, the Ganges, and the Nile,... the Rocky Mountains, the Himmaleh, and Mountains of the Moon, have a kind of personal importance in the annals of the world.

What demon possessed me that I behaved so well?