"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation."

"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 whole day as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the ea…"

"I perceive that, when an acorn and a chestnut fall side by side, the one does not remain long in the mould of the other, but makes its own bed, and pushes itself away the shortest and surest way, by i…"

"Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk."

"Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations."