Before the end of December, generally, they experience their first thawing. Those which a month ago were sour, crabbed, and quite unpalatable to the civilized taste, such at least as were frozen while sound, let a warmer sun come to thaw them, for they are extremely sensitive to its rays, are found to be filled with a rich, sweet cider, better than any bottled cider that I know of, and with which I am better acquainted than with wine. All apples are good in this state, and your jaws are the cider-press.

Take Time by the forelock. It is also the safest part to take a serpent by.

Winter is the time for study, you know, and the colder it is the more studious we are.

There is a chasm between knowledge and ignorance which the arches of science can never span.

That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.

We should impart our courage and not our despair.

Some do not walk at all; others walk in the highways; a few walk across lots. Roads are made for horses and men of business. I do not travel in them much, comparatively, because I am not in a hurry to get to any tavern or grocery or livery-stable or depot to which they lead.