An efficient and valuable man does what he can, whether the community pay him for it or not.

We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being.

Only nature has a right to grieve perpetually, for she only is innocent. Soon the ice will melt, and the blackbirds sing along the river which he frequented, as pleasantly as ever. The same everlasting serenity will appear in this face of God, and we will not be sorrowful, if he is not.

Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape!

When I meet a government which says to me, "Your money or your life," why should I be in haste to give it my money?

Is there any such thing as wisdom not applied to life?

I suspect that, if you should go to the end of the world, you would find somebody there going farther, as if just starting for home at sundown, and having a last word before he drove off.