The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.

It is as hard to see one's self as to look backwards without turning around.

Under the one word "house" are included the schoolhouse, the almshouse, the jail, the tavern, the dwellinghouse; and the meanest shed or cave in which men live contains elements of all these. But nowhere on the earth stands the entire and perfect house.

I have lived some thirty years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors.

Politics is the gizzard of society, full of gut and gravel.

Carlyle said that how to observe was to look, but I say that it is rather to see, and the more you look the less you will observe.

What is sour in the house a bracing walk in the woods makes sweet.