There never is but one opportunity of a kind.

Art may varnish and gild, but it can do no more.

It often happens that a man develops a deeper love and friendship with his pet cat or dog than he does with most of the other humans in his life.

The discoveries which we make abroad are special and particular; those which we make at home are general and significant. The further off, the nearer the surface. The nearer home, the deeper.

The cart before the horse is neither beautiful nor useful. Before we can adorn our houses with beautiful objects the walls must bestripped, and our lives must be stripped, and beautiful housekeeping and beautiful living laid for a foundation.

I was awakened at midnight by some heavy, low-flying bird, probably a loon, flapping by close over my head, along the shore. So, turning the other side of my half-clad body to the fire, I sought slumber again.

I have myself to respect, but to myself I am not amiable; but my friend is my amiableness personified.