The hounding of a dog pursuing a fox or other animal in the horizon may have first suggested the notes of the hunting-horn to alternate with and relieve the lungs of the dog. This natural bugle long resounded in the woods of the ancient world before the horn was invented.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined...

I make it my business to extract from Nature what ever nutriment she can furnish me.... I milk the sky and the earth.

A man who has to go to the village to get the news hasn't heard from himself in a long time.

There are sure to be two prescriptions diametrically opposite.

It is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage at all.

If a man believes and expects great things of himself, it makes no odds where you put him, or what you show him . . he will be surrounded by grandeur.