Truly the stars were given for a consolation to man.

It is pleasant to have been to a place the way a river went.

I have found it a singular luxury to talk across the pond to a companion on the opposite side.

You cannot receive a shock unless you have an electric affinity for that which shocks you.

I have thoroughly tried school-keeping, and found that my expenses were in proportion, or rather out of proportion, to my income,for I was obliged to dress and train, not to say think and believe, accordingly, and I lost my time into the bargain. As I did not teach for the good of my fellow-men, but simply for a livelihood, this was a failure. I have tried trade; but I found that it would take ten years to get under way in that, and that then I should probably be on my way to the devil. I was actually afraid that I might by that time be doing what is called a good business.

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.

In the unbending of the arm to do the deed there is experience worth all the maxims in the world.