Nothing can rightly compel a simple and brave man to a vulgar sadness.

The culture of the hop ... so analagous to the culture and uses of the grape, may afford a theme for future poets.

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

I think that I love society as much as most, and am ready enough to fasten myself like a bloodsucker for the time to any full-blooded man that comes in my way. I am naturally no hermit, but might possibly sit out the sturdiest frequenter of the bar-room, if my business called me thither.

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.

We do not ride on the railroad; it rides upon us.

I lived in Judea eighteen hundred years ago, but I never knew that there was such a one as Christ among my contemporaries.