It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.

Most men would feel shame if caught preparing with their own hands precisely such a dinner, whether of animal or vegetable food, as is every day prepared for them by others. Yet till this is otherwise we are not civilized, and, if gentlemen and ladies, are not true men and women. This certainly suggests what change is to be made.

The only danger in Friendship is that it will end.

In the religion of all nations a purity is hinted at, which, I fear, men never attain to.

I saw a muskrat come out of a hole in the ice ... While I am looking at him, I am thinking what he is thinking of me. He is a different sort of man, that's all.

A town is saved, not more by the righteous men in it, than by the woods and swamps that surround it.

The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it.