Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the ten commandments.

People always overdo the matter when they attempt deception.

I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity.

There is life in the ground; it goes into the seeds and also when it is stirred up goes into the man who stirs it.

Nature is, in fact, a suggester of uneasiness, a promoter of pilgrimages and of excursions of the fancy which never come to any satisfactory haven.

There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it.

To poke a wood fire is more solid enjoyment than almost anything else in the world.