The rule is to carry as little as possible.

The fact which the politician faces is merely that there is less honor among thieves than was supposed, and not the fact that theyare thieves.

To one who habitually endeavors to contemplate the true state of things, the political state can hardly be said to have any existence whatever. It is unreal, incredible, and insignificant to him, and for him to endeavor to extract the truth from such lean material is like making sugar from linen rags, when sugar-cane may be had.

...how deep the ruts of tradition and conformity!

In my short experience of human life, the outward obstacles, if there were any such, have not been living men, but the institutions of the dead.

The startings and arrivals of the cars are now the epochs in the village day.

But the place which you have selected for your camp, though never so rough and grim, begins at once to have its attractions, and becomes a very centre of civilization to you: "Home is home, be it never so homely."