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

It is very rare that you meet with obstacles in this world, which the humblest man has not faculties to surmount.

Live free, child of the mist,- and with respect to knowledge we are allchildren of the mist.

If you would learn to speak all tongues and conform to the customs of all nations, if you would travel farther than all travellers, be naturalized in all climes, and cause the Sphinx to dash her head against a stone, even obey the precept of the old philosopher, and Explore thyself. Herein are demanded the eye and the nerve. Only the defeated and deserters go to the wars, cowards that run away and enlist.

Instead of studying how to make it worth men's while to buy my baskets, I studied rather how to avoid the necessity of selling them.

The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly. They make shift to live merely by conformity, practically as their fathers did, and are in no sense the progenitors of a nobler race of men.

A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.