Who ever saw his old clothes, - his old coat, actually worn out, resolved into its primitive elements, so that it was not a deed of charity to bestow it on some poor boy, by him perchance to be bestowed on some poorer still, or shall we say richer, who could do with less? I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.

Law never made men a whit more just.

Where the citizen uses a mere sliver or board, the pioneer uses the whole trunk of a tree.

There must be some nerve and heroism in our love, as of a winter morning.

What is sour in the house a bracing walk in the woods makes sweet.

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

When our life ceases to be inward and private, conversation degenerates into mere gossip.