Many men walk by day; few walk by night. It is a different season.

The divinity in man is the true vestal fire of the temple which is never permitted to go out, but burns as steadily and with as pure a flame on the obscure provincial altar as in Numa's temple at Rome.

Man needs to know but little more than a lobster in order to catch him in his traps.

The greatest tragedy in life is to spend your whole life fishing only to discover it was never fish that you were after.

Whatever beauty we behold, the more it is distant, serene, and cold, the purer and more durable it is. It is better to warm ourselves with ice than with fire.

Poverty ... It is life near the bone, where it is sweetest.

We live thick and are in each other's way, and stumble over one another, and I think we thus lose some respect for one another.