We are more anxious to speak than to be heard.

None can be an impartial or wise observer of human life but from the vantage ground of what we should call voluntary poverty.

Every man looks at his wood-pile with a kind of affection.

You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure.

In respect to religion and the healing art, all nations are still in a state of barbarism. In the most civilized countries the priest is still but a Powwow, and the physician a Great Medicine.

I often accuse my finest acquaintances of an immense frivolity; for, while there are manners and compliments we do not meet, we donot teach one another the lessons of honesty and sincerity that the brutes do, or of steadiness and solidity that the rocks do. The fault is commonly mutual; however, for we do not habitually demand any more of each other.

Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.