Men will tell you sometimes that "money's hard." That shows it was not made to eat, I say.... Some of those who sank with the steamer the other day found out that money was heavy too.

The richest gifts we can bestow are the least marketable. We hate the kindness which we understand.

It is hard to have a Southern overseer; it is worse to have a Northern one; but worst of all when you are yourself the slave-driver.

The natural historian is not a fisherman who prays for cloudy days and good luck merely; but as fishing has been styled "a contemplative man's recreation," introducing him profitably to woods and water, so the fruit of the naturalist's observations is not in new genera or species, but in new contemplations still, and science is only a more contemplative man's recreation.

When you knock, ask to see God — none of the servants.

No mortal is alert enough to be present at the first dawn of spring.

I was daily intoxicated, yet no man could call me intemperate.