Columbus felt the westward tendency more strongly than any before. He obeyed it, and found a New World for Castile and Leon.

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.

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.

Do what you know you ought to do. Why should we ever go abroad, even across the way, to ask a neighbor's advice? There is a nearerneighbor within us incessantly telling us how we should behave. But we wait for the neighbor without to tell us of some false, easier way.

All good things are cheap: all bad are very dear.

The most primitive places left with us are the swamps, where the spruce still grows shaggy with usnea.

The perch swallows the grub-worm, the pickerel swallows the perch, and the fisherman swallows the pickerel; and so all the chinks in the scale of being are filled.