Frankness invites frankness.

A scholar is a man with his inconvenience, that, when you ask him his opinion of any matter, he must go home and look up his manuscripts to know.

The way to learn German, is, to read the same dozen pages over and over a hundred times, till you know every word and particle in them, and can pronounce and repeat them by heart.

We do what we must, and call it by the best names.

There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.

Why need I volumes, if one word suffice?

The greatest delight the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable. I am not alone and unacknowledged. They nod to me and I to them.