Humor, however broad and genial, takes a narrower view than enthusiasm.

For my part, I could easily do without the post-office. I think that there are very few important communications made through it.

This life we live is a strange dream, and I don't believe at all any account men give of it.

It is not enough to be a hardworking person. Equally important is the job you are working at.

One farmer says to me, "You cannot live on vegetable food solely, for it furnishes nothing to make the bones with;" and so he religiously devotes a part of his day to supplying himself with the raw material of bones; walking all the while he talks behind his oxen, which, with vegetable-made bones, jerk him and his lumbering plow along in spite of every obstacle.

The sort of morality which the priests inculcate is a very subtle policy, far finer than the politicians', and the world is very successfully ruled by them as the policemen.

The tavern will compare favorably with the church. The church is the place where prayers and sermons are delivered, but the tavernis where they are to take effect, and if the former are good, the latter cannot be bad.