What we are seeking so frantically elsewhere may turn out to be the horse we have been riding all along.
Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.
The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it.
Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.
It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.
Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.
To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.
Speculation is the romance of trade, and casts contempt upon on all its sober realities. It renders the stock-jobber a magician, and the exchange a region of enchantment.
How dare you have wino tell me not to do drugs.
The best vision is insight.
Maine is a joy in the summer. But the soul of Maine is more apparent in the winter.