Do not entertain doubts if they are not agreeable to you.

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.

There should always be some flowering and maturing of the fruits of nature in the cooking process.

I fear that he who walks over these fields a century hence will not know the pleasure of knocking off wild apples. Ah, poor man, there are many pleasures which he will not know!

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it; but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains.

Many an object is not seen, though it falls within the range of our visual ray, because it does not come within the range of our intellectual ray.

There is reason in the distinction of civil and uncivil. The manners are sometimes so rough a rind that we doubt whether they cover any core or sap-wood at all.