Where the citizen uses a mere sliver or board, the pioneer uses the whole trunk of a tree.

I am engaged to Concord and my own private pursuits by 10,000 ties, and it would be suicide to rend them.

A man's whole life is taxed for the least thing well done. It is its net result.

A man who has to go to the village to get the news hasn't heard from himself in a long time.

I am not afraid of praise, for I have practiced it on myself.

Probably if our lives were more conformed to nature, we should not need to defend ourselves against her heats and colds, but findher our constant nurse and friend, as do plants and quadrupeds.

It would surpass the powers of a well man nowadays to take up his bed and walk, and I should certainly advise a sick one to lay down his bed and run.