Take Time by the forelock. It is also the safest part to take a serpent by.

I have never met with a friend who furnished me sea-room. I have only tacked a few times and come to anchor - not sailed - made no voyage, carried no venture.

Yet, for my part, I was never unusually squeamish; I could sometimes eat a fried rat with a good relish, if it were necessary.

In my short experience of human life, the outward obstacles, if there were any such, have not been living men, but the institutions of the dead.

You may tell by looking at any twig of the forest, ay, at your very wood-pile, whether its winter is past or not.

Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.

The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.