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.

Be not anxious to avoid poverty. In this way the wealth of the universe may be securely invested.

Comparatively, tattooing is not the hideous custom which it is called. It is not barbarous merely because the printing is skin-deep and unalterable.

Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg, by the side of which more will be laid.

A little thought is sexton to all the world.

I wish to suggest that a man may be very industrious, and yet not spend his time well. There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living. All great enterprises are self-supporting. The poet, for instance, must sustain his body by his poetry, as a steam planing-mill feeds its boilers with the shavings it makes. You must get your living by loving.

Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.