Give me a sentence which no intelligence can understand. There must be a kind of life and palpitation to it, and under its words akind of blood must circulate forever.

I cannot fish without falling a little in self-respect...always when I have done I feel it would have been better if I had not fished.

It is a great art to saunter !

To forget all about your mistakes adds to them perhaps.

The truth is, there is money buried everywhere, and you have only to go to work to find it.

Friendship is the unspeakable joy and blessing that result to two or more individuals who from constitution sympathize. Such natures are liable to no mistakes, but will know each other through thick and thin. Between two by nature alike and fitted to sympathize, there is no veil, and there can be no obstacle. Who are the estranged? Two friends explaining.

I have been breaking silence these twenty-three years and have hardly made a rent in it.