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

The schools begin with what they call the elements, and where do they end?

It is remarkable how many creatures live wild and free though secret in the woods.

There is such a thing as caste, even in the West; but it is comparatively faint; it is conservatism here. It says, forsake not your calling, outrage no institution, use no violence, rend no bonds; the State is thy parent. Its virtue or manhood is wholly filial.

Philosophy, having crept clinging to the rocks so far, puts out its feelers many ways in vain.

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.

What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?