Our molting season, like that of the fouls, must be a crisis in our lives.

When the chopper would praise a pine, he will commonly tell you that the one he cut was so big that a yoke of oxen stood on its stump; as if that were what the pine had grown for, to become the footstool of oxen.

Why should we leave it to Harper & Brothers and Redding & Co. to select our reading?

We are the subjects of an experiment which is not a little interesting to me.

Think for yourself, or others will think for you without thinking of you.

Good religious men, with the love of men in their hearts, and the means to pay their toll in their pockets.

When I would go a-visiting, I find that I go off the fashionable street,--not being inclined to change my dress,--to where man meets man, and not polished shoe meets shoe.