I do not speak to those who are well employed, in whatever circumstances, and they know whether they are well employed or not; but mainly to the mass of men who are discontented, and idly complaining of the hardness of their lot or of the times, when they might improve them.

I am still a learner, not a teacher, feeding somewhat omnivorously, browsing both stalk & leaves

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

Our science, so called, is always more barren and mixed with error than our sympathies.

In the summer we lay up a stock of experiences for the winter, as the squirrel of nuts?something for conversation in winter evenings.

I make myself rich by making my wants few.

I also have in mind that seemingly wealthy, but most terribly impoverished class of all, who have accumulated dross, but know not how to use it, or get rid of it, and thus have forged their own golden or silver fetters.