I have not the most definite designs on the future.

Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.

Translate a book a dozen times from one language to another, and what becomes of its style? Most books would be worn out and disappear in this ordeal. The pen which wrote it is soon destroyed, but the poem survives.

Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it.

Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.

From my experience with wild apples, I can understand that there may be reason for a savage's preferring many kinds of food which the civilized man rejects. The former has the palate of an outdoor man. It takes a savage or wild taste to appreciate a wild fruit.

A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener.