The fire is the main comfort of the camp, whether in summer or winter, and is about as ample at one season as at another. It is as well for cheerfulness as for warmth and dryness.

The opening of large tracts by the ice-cutters commonly causes a pond to break up earlier; for the water, agitated by the wind, even in cold weather, wears away the surrounding ice.

I make myself rich by making my wants few.

Let us consider under what disadvantages Science has hitherto labored before we pronounce thus confidently on her progress.

Men rush to California and Australia as if the true gold were to be found in that direction but that is to go to the very opposite extreme to where it lies. They go prospecting farther and farther away from the true lead, and are most unfortunate when they think themselves most successful.

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

The cost of a thing is something called life which is given in exchange for it.