It is not so important that many should be good as you, as that there be some absolute goodness somewhere; for that will leaven the whole lump.

Methinks that the moment my legs began to move, my thoughts began to flow.

Comparatively, we can excuse any offense against the heart, but not against the imagination. The imagination knows--nothing escapes its glance from out its eyry--and it controls the breast.

It is impossible to give a soldier a good education without making him a deserter. His natural foe is the government that drills him.

Open all your pores and bathe in all the tides of nature, in all her streams and oceans, at all seasons.

The flowers of the apple are perhaps the most beautiful of any tree's, so copious and so delicious to both sight and scent.

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.