The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.

What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.

The past is only so heroic as we see it. It is the canvas on which our idea of heroism is painted, and so, in one sense, the dim prospectus of our future field.

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

Don't be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.

If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.

Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.