When a dog runs at you, whistle for him.

If we see nature as pausing, immediately all mortifies and decays; but seen as progressing, she is beautiful.

Rescue the drowning and tie your shoestrings.

Where the most beautiful wild flowers grow, there mans spirit is fed and poets grow.

Behold the difference between the Oriental and the Occidental. The former has nothing to do in this world; the latter is full of activity. The one looks in the sun until his eyes are put out; the other follows him prone in his westward course.

Those undeserved joys which come uncalled and make us more pleased than grateful are they that sing.

Men and boys are learning all kinds of trades but how to make men of themselves. They learn to make houses; but they are not so well housed, they are not so contented in their houses, as the woodchucks in their holes.