I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.

Deep are the foundations of sincerity. Even stone walls have their foundation below the frost.

Nature refuses to sympathize with our sorrow. She seems not to have provided for, but by a thousand contrivances against it.

To forget all about your mistakes adds to them perhaps.

Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.

The cheapest way to travel, and the way to travel the farthest in the shortest distance, is to go afoot, carrying a dipper, a spoon, and a fish line, some Indian meal, some salt, and some sugar.... Any one of these things I mean, not all together. I have traveled thus some hundreds of miles without taking any meal in a house, sleeping on the ground when convenient, and found it cheaper, and in many respects more profitable, than staying at home. So that some have inquired why it would not be best to travel always. But I never thought of traveling simply as a means of getting a livelihood.

That is a pathetic inquiry among travelers and geographers after the site of ancient Troy. It is not near where they think it is.When a thing is decayed and gone, how indistinct must be the place it occupied!