When a man dies he kicks the dust.

The husbandman is always a better Greek than the scholar is prepared to appreciate, and the old custom still survives, while antiquarians and scholars grow gray in commemorating it.

My enemies are worms, cool days, and most of all woodchucks.

This is one of those instances in which the individual genius is found to consent, as indeed it always does, at last, with the universal.

This generation has come into the world fatally late for some enterprises. Go where we will on the surface of things, men have been there before us.... But the lives of men, though more extended laterally in their range, are still as shallow as ever.

He listens equally to the prayers of the believer and the unbeliever.

If I have unjustly wrested a plank from a drowning man, I must restore it to him though I drown myself.