We cannot but pity the boy who has never fired a gun; he is no more humane, while his education has been sadly neglected.

I do not see why the schoolmaster should be taxed to support the priest, and not the priest the schoolmaster.

The same soil is good for men and for trees. A man's health requires as many acres of meadow to his prospect as his farm does loads of muck.

Roads are made for horses and men of business. I do not travel in them much.

Live free, child of the mist,- and with respect to knowledge we are allchildren of the mist.

Eastward I go only by force; but westward I go free.

Whatever we leave to God, God does and blesses us.