Many old people receive pensions for no other reason, it seems to me, but as a compensation for having lived a long time ago.

A man sits as many risks as he runs.

Inexpressibly beautiful appears the recognition by man of the least natural fact, and the allying his life to it.

Morning glory is the best name, it always refreshes me to see it.

When I consider that the noble animals have been exterminated here - the cougar, panther, lynx, wolverine, wolf, bear, moose, deer, the beaver, the turkey, etc, etc - I cannot but feel as I lived in a tamed, and, as it were, emasculated country.

For if we take the ages into our account, may there not be a civilization going on among brutes as well as men?

I take it for granted, when I am invited to lecture anywhere,--for I have had a little experience in that business,--that there isa desire to hear what I think on some subject, though I may be the greatest fool in the country,--and not that I should say pleasant things merely, or such as an audience will assent to; and I resolve, accordingly, that I will give them a strong dose of myself. They have sent for me, and engaged to pay for me, and I am determined that they shall have me, though I bore them beyond all precedent.