Not until you become a stranger to yourself will you be able to make acquaintance with the Friend.

Honesty is often the best policy, but sometimes the appearance of it is worth six of it.

He was a solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious old iceberg who looked like he was waiting for a vacancy in the Trinity.

When your opinions start to coincide with those of the majority, it is time to reconsider your opinions.

A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught.

There is a sumptuous variety about the New England weather... In the spring I have counted one hundred and twenty-six different kinds of weather inside of four and twenty hours.

The face of the water, in time, became a wonderful book- a book that was a dead language to the uneducated passenger, but which told its mind to me without reserve, delivering its most cherished secrets as clearly as if it uttered them with a voice. And it was not a book to be read once and thrown aside, for it had a new story to tell every day.