Let every one mind his own business, and endeavor to be what he was made.

Those undeserved joys which come uncalled and make us more pleased than grateful are they that sing.

He is the best sailor who can steer within the fewest points of the wind, and extract a motive power out of the greatest obstacles. Most begin to veer and tack as soon as the wind changes from aft, and as within the tropics it does not blow from all points of the compass, there are some harbors which they can never reach.

A man's ignorance sometimes is not only useful, but beautiful-while his knowledge, so called, is oftentimes worse than useless, besides being ugly.

Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them.

You need not rest your reputation on the dinners you give.

The forests are held cheap after the white pine has been culled out; and the explorers and hunters pray for rain only to clear theatmosphere of smoke.