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

It is reasonable that a man should be something worthier at the end of the year than he was at the beginning.

From my experience with wild apples, I can understand that there may be reason for a savage's preferring many kinds of food which the civilized man rejects. The former has the palate of an outdoor man. It takes a savage or wild taste to appreciate a wild fruit.

Surely one may as profitably be soaked in the juices of a swamp for one day as pick his way dry-shod over sand. Cold and damp ? are they not as rich experience as warmth and dryness?

The ears were made, not for such trivial uses as men are wont to suppose, but to hear celestial sounds.

It is dry, hazy June weather. We are more of the earth, farther from heaven these days.

I do not value any view of the universe into which man and the institutions of man enter very largely and absorb much of the attention. Man is but the place where I stand, and the prospect hence is infinite.