The stars are the jewels of the night, and perchance surpass anything which day has to show.

There is a difference between eating and drinking for strength and from mere gluttony.

As for your high towers and monuments, there was a crazy fellow once in this town who undertook to dig through to China, and he got so far that, as he said, he heard the Chinese pots and kettles rattle; but I think that I shall not go out of my way to admire the hole which he made.

"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."

It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.

If you see a man approaching you with the obvious intent of doing you good, you should run for your life.

I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn.