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.

It is an unfortunate discovery certainly, that of a law which binds us where we did not know before that we were bound.

The fire is the main comfort of the camp, whether in summer or winter

How many things are now at loose ends! Who knows which way the wind will blow tomorrow?

A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.

We saw one school-house in our walk, and listened to the sounds which issued from it; but it appeared like a place where the process, not of enlightening, but of obfuscating the mind was going on, and the pupils received only so much light as could penetrate the shadow of the Catholic church.

Sweep away the clutter of things that complicate our lives.