We wonder superfluously when we hear of a somnambulist walking a plank securely, —we have walked a plank all our lives up to this particular string-p… - Henry David Thoreau

Society is commonly too cheap. We meet at very short intervals, not having had time to acquire any new value for each other. We meet at meals three times a day, and give each other a new taste of that old musty cheese that we are.

We are as much as we see. Faith is sight and knowledge. The hands only serve the eyes.

Men rush to California and Australia as if the true gold were to be found in that direction; but that is to go to the very opposite extreme to where it lies. They go prospecting farther and farther away from the true lead, and are most unfortunate when they think themselves most successful.