We hate the kindness which we understand.

We slander the hyena; man is the fiercest and cruelest animal.

As long as there is satire, the poet is, as it were, particeps criminis.

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 would surpass the powers of a well man nowadays to take up his bed and walk, and I should certainly advise a sick one to lay down his bed and run.

Cultivate the habit of early rising. It is unwise to keep the head long on a level with the feet.

I make it my business to extract from Nature what ever nutriment she can furnish me.... I milk the sky and the earth.