Instead of water we got here a draught of beer, a lumberer's drink, which would acclimate and naturalize a man at once,-which would make him see green, and, if he slept, dream that he heard the wind sough among the pines.

They who have been bred in the school of politics fail now and always to face the facts. Their measures are half measures and makeshifts merely. They put off the day of settlement, and meanwhile the debt accumulates.

I would remind my countrymen that they are to be men first, and Americans only at a late and convenient hour.

Your scheme must be the framework of the universe; all other schemes will soon be ruins.

It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.

There is a certain class of unbelievers who sometimes ask me such questions as, if I think that I can live on vegetable food alone; and to strike at the root of the matter at once,--for the root is faith,--I am accustomed to answer such, that I can live on board nails. If they cannot understand that, they cannot understand much that I have to say.

Morning work! By the blushes of Aurora and the music of Memnon, what should be man's morning work in this world?