Agassiz does recommend authors to eat fish, because the phosphorus in it makes brains. But I cannot help you to a decision about the amount you need to eat. Perhaps a couple of whales would be enough.

I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want.

Tom appeared on the sidewalk with a bucket of whitewash and a long-handled brush. He surveyed the fence, and all gladness left him and a deep melancholy settled down upon his spirit. Thirty yards of board fence nine feet high. Life to him seemed hollow, and existence but a burden.

God's noblest work. Man who found it out? Man.

Well, no doubt it's a blessed thing to have an imagination that can always make you satisfied, no matter how you are fixed.

A conspiracy is nothing but a secret agreement of a number of men for the pursuance of policies which they dare not admit in public

We all know about the habits of the ant, we know all about the habits of the bee, but we know nothing at all about the habits of the oyster. It seems almost certain that we have been choosing the wrong time for studying the oyster.