It [is of] some advantage to live a primitive and frontier life, though in the midst of an outward civilization, if only to learn what are the gross necessities of life.

The Ethiopian cannot change his skin nor the leopard his spots.

Some are reputed sick and some are not. It often happens that the sicker man is the nurse to the sounder.

My eye is educated to discover anything on the ground, as chestnuts, etc. It is probably wholesomer to look at the ground much than at the heavens.

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

He who eats the fruit should at least plant the seed; ay, if possible, a better seed than that whose fruit he has enjoyed.

If all were as it seems, and men made the elements their servants for noble ends!