Of all the men who were said to be my contemporaries, it seemed to me that John Brown was the only one who had not died.

Every man must walk to the beat of his own drummer.

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.

I saw a muskrat come out of a hole in the ice ... While I am looking at him, I am thinking what he is thinking of me. He is a different sort of man, that's all.

A lady once offered me a mat, but as I had no room to spare within the house, nor time to spare within or without to shake it, I declined it, preferring to wipe my feet on the sod before my door. It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.

Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years.

Nature refuses to sympathize with our sorrow. She seems not to have provided for, but by a thousand contrivances against it.