It behooves every man to see that his influence is on the side of justice, and let the courts make their own characters.

The moles nested in my cellar, nibbling every third potato, and making a snug bed even there of some hair left after plastering and of brown paper; for even the wildest animals love comfort and warmth as well as man, and they survive the winter only because they are so careful to secure them.

You never gain something but that you lose something.

The largest pond is as sensitive to atmospheric changes as the globule of mercury in its tube.

I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.

I lived in Judea eighteen hundred years ago, but I never knew that there was such a one as Christ among my contemporaries.

From my experience with wild apples, I can understand that there may be reason for a savage's preferring many kinds of food which the civilized man rejects. The former has the palate of an outdoor man. It takes a savage or wild taste to appreciate a wild fruit.