A man cannot have a pure mind who refuses apple dumplings.

No work is worse than overwork; the mind preys on itself,--the most unwholesome of food.

Do not fold, spindle or mutilate.

Rags, which are the reproach of poverty, are the beggar's robes, and graceful insignia of his profession, his tenure, his full dress, the suit in which he is expected to show himself in public.

I own that I am disposed to say grace upon twenty other occasions in the course of the day besides my dinner. I want a form for setting out upon a pleasant walk, for a moonlight ramble, for a friendly meeting, or a solved problem. Why have we none for books, these spiritual repasts-a grace before Milton-a grace before Shakespeare-a devotional exercise proper to be said before reading The Fairie Queene?

I give thee all,-I can no more, Though poor the off'ring be; My heart and lute are all the store That I can bring to thee.

The measure of choosing well, is, whether a man likes and finds good in what he has chosen.