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

A man thinks as well through his legs and arms as this brain.

We need to witness our own limits transgressed, and some life pasturing freely where we never wander.

It is truly enough said that a corporation has no conscience, but a corporation of conscientious men is a corporation with a conscience.

When some of my friends have asked me anxiously about their boys, whether they should let them hunt, I have answered yes-- remembering that it was one of the best parts of my education-- make them hunters.

This is a common experience in my traveling. I plod along, thinking what a miserable world this is and what miserable fellows we that inhabit it, wondering what it is tempts men to live in it; but anon I leave the towns behind and am lost in some boundless heath, and life becomes gradually more tolerable, if not even glorious.

A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind.