Enemies publish themselves. They declare war. The friend never declares his love.

We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience and character.

I know a good woman who thinks that her son lost his life because he took to drinking water only.

Unless the human race perspire more than I do, there is no occasion to live by the sweat of their brow. If men cannot get on without money (the smallest amount will suffice), the truest method of earning it is by working as a laborer at one dollar per day. You are least dependent so; I speak as an expert, having used several kinds of labor.

Fishing has been styled 'a contemplative man's recreation,' ... and science is only a more contemplative man's recreation.

The majority of the men of the North, and of the South and East and West, are not men of principle. If they vote, they do not sendmen to Congress on errands of humanity; but while their brothers and sisters are being scourged and hung for loving liberty,... it is the mismanagement of wood and iron and stone and gold which concerns them.

The boy gathers materials for a temple, and then when he is thirty, concludes to build a woodshed.