All that are printed and bound are not books; they do not necessarily belong to letters, but are oftener to be ranked with the other luxuries and appendages of civilized life. Base wares are palmed off under a thousand disguises.

As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind.

Can there be any greater reproach than an idle learning? Learn to split wood, at least.

I was determined to know beans.

I see less difference between a city and a swamp than formerly.

I am alarmed when it happens that I have walked a mile into the woods bodily, without getting there in spirit.

Politics is but a narrow field.