Really, there is no infidelity, nowadays, so great as that which prays, and keeps the Sabbath, and rebuilds the churches. The sealer of the South Pacific preaches a truer doctrine.

To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.

That virtue we appreciate is as much ours as another s. We see so much only as we possess.

The fact which the politician faces is merely that there is less honor among thieves than was supposed, and not the fact that theyare thieves.

We loiter in winter while it is already spring.

There are secret articles in our treaties with the gods, of more importance than all the rest, which the historian can never know.

When it was proposed to me to go abroad, rub oft some rust, and better my condition in a worldly sense, I fear lest my life will lose some of its homeliness. If these fields and streams and woods, the phenomena of nature here, and the simple occupations of the inhabitants should cease to interest and inspire me, no culture or wealth would atone for the loss.