They who have been bred in the school of politics fail now and always to face the facts. Their measures are half measures and makeshifts merely. They put off the day of settlement, and meanwhile the debt accumulates.

As for Clothing, to come at once to the practical part of the question, perhaps we are led oftener by the love of novelty and a regard for the opinions of men, in procuring it, than by a true utility.

It is darker in the woods, even in common nights, than most suppose.

To have made even one person's life a little better, that is to succeed.

The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right.

Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly.

Our last deed, like the young of the land crab, wends its way to the sea of cause and effect as soon as born, and makes a drop there to eternity.