The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.

What is the use of going right over the old track again? There is an adder in the path which your own feet have worn. You must make tracks into the Unknown.

Some creatures are made to see in the dark.

Time cannot bend the line which God has writ.

The opening of large tracts by the ice-cutters commonly causes a pond to break up earlier; for the water, agitated by the wind, even in cold weather, wears away the surrounding ice.

Many college text-books, which were a weariness and stumbling-block when I studied, I have since read a little with pleasure and profit.

I am sure that I never read any memorable news in a newspaper.