A man may esteem himself happy when that which is his food is also his medicine.

Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through, and you could go in the back way.

Politics is but a narrow field.

The world is a strange place for a playhouse to stand within it.

For many years I was a self-appointed inspector of snowstorms and rainstorms and did my duty faithfully, though I never received payment for it.

I sat at a table where were rich food and wine in abundance, and obsequious attendance, but sincerity and truth were not; and I went away hungry from the inhospitable board.

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.