What is chastity? How shall a man know if he is chaste? He shall not know it. We have heard of this virtue, but we know not what it is.

Invariably our best nights were those when it rained.

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

A man's interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.

The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way.

I did not know that we had ever quarreled.

He who cuts down woods beyond a certain limit exterminates birds.