We waded so gently and reverently, or we pulled together so smoothly, that the fishes of thought were not scared from the stream, nor feared any angler on the bank, but came and went grandly, like the clouds which came and went on the western sky, and the mother-o'-pearl flocks which sometimes form and dissolve there.

I did not go to Boston, for with regard to that place I sympathize with one of my neighbors, an old man, who has not been there since the last war, when he was compelled to go. No, I have a real genius for staying at home.

Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.

I can alter my life by altering my attitude. He who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers.

There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect.

Stuff a cold and starve a cold are but two ways. They are the two practices, both always in full blast. Yet you must take the advice of the one school as if there was no other.

One may be drunk with love without being any nearer to finding his mate.