There is no single face in nature, because every eye that looks upon it, sees it from its own angle. So every man's spice-box seasons his own food."

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person. That is natural.

There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.

"I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not mind at all. . . . I do not weep at the world -- I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife."