The present hour is always wealthiest when it is poorer than the future ones, as that is the pleasantest site which affords the pleasantest prospect.

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

It is not worth the while to go round the world to count the cats in Zanzibar. Yet do this even till you can do better, and you may perhaps find some "Symmes' Hole" by which to get at the inside at last.

Invariably our best nights were those when it rained.

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.

We can never have enough of nature. We must be refreshed by the sight of inexhaustible vigor.

Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.