Fame is not just. She never finely or discriminatingly praises, but coarsely hurrahs.

Are you in want of amusement nowadays? Then play a little at the game of getting a living. There was never anything equal to it. Do it temperately, though, and don't sweat.

"Hear! hear!" screamed the jay from a neighboring tree, where I had heard a tittering for some time, "winter has a concentrated and nutty kernel, if you know where to look for it."

The civilized man is a more experienced and wiser savage.

The rich man is always sold to the institution which makes him rich. Absolutely speaking, the more money, the less virtue.

There is a slumbering subterranean fire in nature which never goes out, and which no cold can chill.

I don't like the city better, the more I see it, but worse. I am ashamed of my eyes that behold it. It is a thousand times meanerthan I could have imagined.... The pigs in the street are the most respectable part of the population.