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.

I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.

Drive a nail home and clinch it so faithfully that you can wake up in the night and think of your work with satisfaction - a work at which you would not be ashamed to invoke the muse.

Dwell as near as possible to the channel in which your life flows.

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.

There is considerable danger that a man will be crazy between dinner and supper; but it will not directly answer any good purposethat I know of, and it is just as easy to be sane.