Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.

In the production of the necessaries of life Nature is ready enough to assist man.

The very willow-rows lopped every three years for fuel or powder, - and every sizable pine and oak, or other forest tree, cut down within the memory of man! As if individual speculators were to be allowed to export the clouds out of the sky, or the stars out of the firmament, one by one. We shall be reduced to gnaw the very crust of the earth for nutriment.

If we dealt only with the false and dishonest, we should at last forget how to speak truth.

Ninety-nine one-hundredths of our lives we are mere hedgers and ditchers, but from time to time we meet with reminders of our destiny.

Think for yourself, or others will think for you without thinking of you.

The way you spend Christmas is far more important than how much.