I have found it to be the most serious objection to coarse labors long continued, that they compelled me to eat and drink coarsely also.

For many years I was a self-appointed inspector of snowstorms and rainstorms and did my duty faithfully, though I never received payment for it.

Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety as after disappointment

He who receives an injury is to some extent an accomplice of the wrong-doer.

. . . we should be men first, and subjects afterward.

If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.

A healthy man, with steady employment, as wood-chopping at fifty cents a cord, and a camp in the woods, will not be a good subjectfor Christianity. The New Testament may be a choice book to him on some, but not on all or most of his days. He will rather go a-fishing in his leisure hours. The Apostles, though they were fishers too, were of the solemn race of sea-fishers, and never trolled for pickerel on inland streams.