There are more consequences to a shipwreck than the underwriters notice.

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.

I think that we may safely trust a good deal more than we do. We may waive just so much care of ourselves as we honestly bestow elsewhere.

When you knock, ask to see God — none of the servants.

As they say in geology, time never fails, there is always enough of it, so I may say, criticism never fails.

Truth is always paradoxical.

When the farmer has got his house, he may not be the richer but the poorer for it, and it be the house that has got him... a man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.