Every day our garments become more assimilated to ourselves, receiving the impress of the wearer's character, until we hesitate tolay them aside without such delay and medical appliances and some such solemnity even as our bodies.

I am too easily contented with a slight and almost animal happiness. My happiness is a good deal like that of the woodchucks.

There are more consequences to a shipwreck than the underwriters notice.

One can hardly imagine a more healthful employment, or one more favorable to contemplation and the observation of nature.

There is an orientalism in the most restless pioneer, and the farthest west is but the farthest east.

f the injustice is part of the necessary friction of the machine of government, let it go, let it go; perchance it will wear smooth - certainly the machine will wear out... but if it is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then I say, break the law. Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the machine. What I have to do is to see, at any rate, that I do not lend myself to the wrong which I condemn.

We hate the kindness which we understand.