The American has dwindled into an Odd Fellow,-one who may be known by the development of his organ of gregariousness.

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

It would be no reproach to a philosopher, that he knew the future better than the past, or even than the present. It is better worth knowing.

For the most part, we are not where we are, but in a false position. Through an infirmity of our natures, we suppose a case, and put ourselves into it, and hence are in two cases at the same time, and it is doubly difficult to get out.

Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.

Man is an animal who more than any other can adapt himself to all climates and circumstances.

I thought, as I have my living to get, and have not eaten today, that I might go a- fishing. That's the true industry for poets. It is the only trade I have learned.