We need only travel enough to give our intellects an airing.

The biggest happiness is when at the end of the year you feel better than at the beginning

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

We begin to praise when we begin to see a thing needs our assistance.

Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.

There is a difference between eating and drinking for strength and from mere gluttony.

As far as our noblest hardwood forests are concerned, the animals, especially squirrels and jays, are our greatest and almost only benefactors. It is to them that we owe this gift. It is not in vain that the squirrels live in or about every forest tree, or hollow log, and every wall and heap of stones.