It is reasonable that a man should be something worthier at the end of the year than he was at the beginning.

I believe that water is the only drink for a wise man.

After all, the practical reason why, when the power is once in the hands of the people, a majority are permitted, and for a long period continue, to rule is not because they are most likely to be in the right, nor because this seems fairest to the minority, but because they are physically the strongest. But a government in which the majority rule in all cases cannot be based on justice, even as far as men understand it.

Our manners have been corrupted by communication with the saints.

What is most striking in the Maine wilderness is the continuousness of the forest, with fewer open intervals or glades than you had imagined. Except the few burnt lands, the narrow intervals on the rivers, the bare tops of the high mountains, and the lakes and streams, the forest is uninterrupted.

It is truly enough said that a corporation has no conscience, but a corporation of conscientious men is a corporation with a conscience.

It would be better if there were but one inhabitant to a square mile, as where I live.