When the leaves fall, the whole earth is a cemetery pleasant to walk in. I love to wander and muse over them in their graves. Here are no lying nor vain epitaphs.

Yet we must try the harder, the less the prospect of success.

If the alternative is to keep all just men in prison, or give up war and slavery, the State will not hesitate which to choose.

I would fain keep sober always; and there are infinite degrees of drunkenness.

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

I look upon England today as an old gentleman who is travelling with a great deal of baggage, trumpery which has accumulated fromlong housekeeping, which he has not the courage to burn.

When some of my friends have asked me anxiously about their boys, whether they should let them hunt, I have answered yes-- remembering that it was one of the best parts of my education-- make them hunters.