We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.
It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.
There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.
I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.
There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect.
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