It is not worth the while to go round the world to count the cats in Zanzibar. Yet do this even till you can do better, and you may perhaps find some "Symmes' Hole" by which to get at the inside at last.

Those whom we can love, we can hate; to others we are indifferent.

Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.

The highest law gives a thing to him who can use it.

I do not wish to be any more busy with my hands than is necessary.

You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure.

"Hear! hear!" screamed the jay from a neighboring tree, where I had heard a tittering for some time, "winter has a concentrated and nutty kernel, if you know where to look for it."