A worm is as good a traveler as a grasshopper or a cricket, and a much wiser settler. With all their activity these do not hop away from drought nor forward to summer. We do not avoid evil by fleeing before it, but by rising above or diving below its plane; as the worm escapes drought and frost by boring a few inches deeper.

A regular council was held with the Indians, who had come in on their ponies, and speeches were made on both sides through an interpreter, quite in the described mode,--the Indians, as usual, having the advantage in point of truth and earnestness, and therefore of eloquence. The most prominent chief was named Little Crow. They were quite dissatisfied with the white man's treatment of them, and probably have reason to be so.

Truths and roses have thorns about them.

Moral reform is the effort to throw off sleep.

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

Don't be afraid that your life will end, be afraid that it will never begin!

Heaven might be defined as the place which men avoid.