What a man marries for's hard to tell ... an' what a woman marries for's past findin' out.

I never saw the man yet that came out of politics as clean as he went into 'em.

nations decay from within more often than they surrender to outward assault.

Many of the men who had come to the wilderness to practice religion appeared to have forgotten its true nature.

The transcendental point of view, the habit of thought bred by communion with earth and sky, had refined the grain while it had roughened the husk.

He felt with the force of a revelation that to throw up the clods of earth manfully is as beneficent as to revolutionize the world. It was not the matter of the work, but the mind that went into it, that counted - and the man who was not content to do small things well would leave great things undone.

though pleasure may be purchasable, happiness cannot be bought for a price.