Everyone must believe in something. I believe I'll go canoeing.

Much is published, but little printed.

Pity the man who has a character to support - it is worse than a large family - he is silent poor indeed.

I am not afraid that I shall exaggerate the value and significance of life, but that I shall not be up to the occasion which it is.

I see young men, my townsmen, whose misfortune it is to have inherited farms, houses, barns, cattle, and farming tools; for these are more easily acquired than got rid of. Better if they had been born in the open pasture and suckled by a wolf, that they might have seen with clearer eyes what field they were called to labor in. Who made them serfs of the soil? Why should they eat their sixty acres, when man is condemned to eat only his peck of dirt? Why should they begin digging their graves as soon as they are born?

The life in us is like the water in the river. It may rise this year higher than man has ever known it, and flood the parched uplands; even this may be the eventful year, which will drown out all our muskrats. It was not always dry land where we dwell. I see far inland the banks where the stream anciently washed, before science began to record its freshets.

As the least drop of wine tinges the whole goblet, so the least particle of truth colors our whole life.