While England endeavors to cure the potato-rot, will not any endeavor to cure the brain-rot, which prevails so much more widely and fatally?

For one that comes with a pencil to sketch or sing, a thousand come with an axe or rifle. What a coarse and imperfect use Indiansand hunters make of nature! No wonder that their race is so soon exterminated.

My excuse for not lecturing against the use of tobacco is, that I never chewed it; that is a penalty which reformed tobacco-chewers have to pay; though there are things enough I have chewed which I could lecture against.

If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.

Be resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.

The book exists for us, perchance, which will explain our miracles and reveal new ones.

There is nothing more difficult to find than oneself.