I do not know how to distinguish between waking life and a dream. Are we not always living the life that we imagine we are?

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We know but few man, a great many coats and breeches.

What is once well done is done forever.

On the death of a friend, we should consider that the fates through confidence have devolved on us the task of a double living, that we have henceforth to fulfill the promise of our friend's life also, in our own, to the world.

Some of you, we all know, are poor, find it hard to live, are sometimes, as it were, gasping for breath.

He does nothing with haste and drudgery, but as if he loved it. He makes the most of his labor, and takes infinite satisfaction in every part of it.

Men have become the tools of their tools. Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul. Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.

How can you expect the birds to sing when their groves are cut down?

To be right is more honorable than to be law abiding.

It is remarkable how many creatures live wild and free though secret in the woods, and still sustain themselves in the neighborhood of towns, suspected by hunters only. How retired the otter manages to live here! He grows to be four feet long, as big as a small boy, perhaps without any human being getting a glimpse of him.

We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.

One little chore to do, one little commission to fulfil, one message to carry, would spoil heaven itself.

I am convinced that if all men were to live as simply as I then did, thieving and robbery would be unknown. These take place only in communities where some have got more than is sufficient while others have not enough.

We commonly do not remember that it is … always the first person that is speaking.

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it; but while I drink, I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. It's thin current slides away, but eternity remains. I would drink deeper; fish in the sky, whose bottom is pebbly with stars.