“There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.”

“The moose will perhaps one day become extinct; but how naturally then, when it exists only as a fossil relic, and unseen as that, may the poet or sculptor invent a fabulous animal with similar branching and leafy horns, — a sort of fucus or lichen in bone, — to be the inhabitant of such a forest as this!”

“Truth strikes us from behind and in the dark, as well as from before and in broad daylight.”

“It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.”

“Books which are books are all that you want, and there are but half a dozen in any thousand.”

“A Friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us.”

“Direct your eye inward, and you'll find / A thousand regions in your mind / Yet undiscovered. Travel them, and be / Expert in home-cosmography”