My friend is one... who take me for what I am.

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

Every man has to learn the points of the compass again as often as he awakes, whether from sleep or any abstraction.

I say, break the law.

I am less affected by their heroism who stood up for half an hour in the front line at Buena Vista, than by the steady and cheerful valor of the men who inhabit the snow-plow for their winter quarters; who have not merely the three-o'-clock-in-the-morning courage, which Bonaparte thought was the rarest, but whose courage does not go to rest so early, who go to sleep only when the storm sleeps or the sinews of their iron steed are frozen.

One must maintain a little bittle of summer, even in the middle of winter.

Let no one think that I do not love the old ministers. They were, probably, the best men in their generation, and they deserve that their biographies should fill the pages of the town histories. If I could but hear the "glad tidings" of which they tell, and which, perchance, they heard, I might write in a worthier strain than this.