Dwell as near as possible to the channel in which your life flows.

Those undeserved joys which come uncalled and make us more pleased than grateful are they that sing.

I do not know at first what it is that harms me. The men and things of to-day are wont to be fairer and truer in to-morrow's memory.

Politics is the gizzard of society, full of grit and gravel, and the two political parties are its opposite halves - sometimes split into quarters - which grind on each other. Not only individuals but states have thus a confirmed dyspepsia.

What the banker sighs for, the meanest clown may have-leisure and a quiet mind.

March to the beat of your own drummer.

The newspapers are the ruling power. Any other government is reduced to a few marines at Fort Independence. If a man neglects to read the Daily Times, government will go down on its knees to him, for this is the only treason these days.