A healthy man, with steady employment, as wood-chopping at fifty cents a cord, and a camp in the woods, will not be a good subjectfor Christianity. The New Testament may be a choice book to him on some, but not on all or most of his days. He will rather go a-fishing in his leisure hours. The Apostles, though they were fishers too, were of the solemn race of sea-fishers, and never trolled for pickerel on inland streams.

It is not worth the while to live by rich cookery.

We cannot see anything until we are possessed with the idea of it, take it into our heads,--and then we can hardly see anything else.

be yourself- not your idea of what you think somebody else's idea of yourself should be.

Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.

It is darker in the woods, even in common nights, than most suppose.

The New Testament is remarkable for its pure morality; the best of the Hindoo Scripture, for its pure intellectuality. The readeris nowhere raised into and sustained in a higher, purer, or rarer region of thought than in the Bhagvat-Geeta.... It is unquestionably one of the noblest and most sacred scriptures which have come down to us.