There is a certain perfection in accident which we never consciously attain.

How can you expect the birds to sing when their groves are cut down?

If labor mainly, or to any considerable degree, serves the purpose of a police, to keep men out of mischief, it indicates a rottenness at the foundation of our community.

The sport of digging the bait is nearly equal to that of catching the fish, when one's appetite is not too keen.

A man thinks as well through his legs and arms as this brain.

I have heard a good many pretend that they are going to die; or that they have died, for aught that I know. Nonsense! I'll defy them to do it. They have n't got life enough in them.... Only half a dozen or so have died since the world began.

The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free.