The Universal Soul, as it is called, has an interest in the stacking of hay, the foddering of cattle, and the draining of peat-meadows.

To a small man every greater is an exaggeration.

Truth is his inspirer, and earnestness the polisher of his sentences. He could afford to lose his Sharp's rifles, while he retained his faculty of speech,--a Sharp's rifle of infinitely surer and longer range.

Fire is the most tolerable third party

All good things are wild and free.

I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.

Staying in the house breeds a sort of insanity always. Every house is, in this sense, a hospital.