Things don't change. We change.
I have much to learn of the Indian, nothing of the missionary.
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.
What the first philosopher taught the last will have to repeat.
A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener.
A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.