Things don't change. We change.

If you indulge in long periods, you must be sure to have a snapper at the end.

What avail all your scholarly accomplishments and learning, compared with wisdom and manhood? To omit his other behavior, see whata work this comparatively unread and unlettered man wrote within six weeks. Where is our professor of belles-lettres, or of logic and rhetoric, who can write so well?

My desire for knowledge is intermittent; but my desire to commune with the spirit of the universe, to be intoxicated with the fumes, call it, of that divine nectar, to bear my head through atmospheres and over heights unknown to my feet, is perennial and constant.

There are some things which a man never speaks of, which are much finer kept silent about. To the highest communications we only lend a silent ear.

To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.

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