Whatever we leave to God, God does and blesses us.

We commonly do not remember that it is, after all, always the first person that is speaking.

The eye is the jewel of the body.

When I consider that the noble animals have been exterminated here - the cougar, panther, lynx, wolverine, wolf, bear, moose, deer, the beaver, the turkey, etc, etc - I cannot but feel as I lived in a tamed, and, as it were, emasculated country.

The fishermen say that the "thundering of the pond" scares the fishes and prevents their biting.

As for the pyramids, there is nothing to wonder at in them so much as the fact that so many men could be found degraded enough to spend their lives constructing a tomb for some ambitious booby, whom it would have been wiser and manlier to have drowned in the Nile, and then given his body to the dogs.

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