There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect.

All great enterprises are self-supporting.

Treat your friends for what you know them to be. Regard no surfaces. Consider not what they did, but what they intended.

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.

The very willow-rows lopped every three years for fuel or powder, - and every sizable pine and oak, or other forest tree, cut down within the memory of man! As if individual speculators were to be allowed to export the clouds out of the sky, or the stars out of the firmament, one by one. We shall be reduced to gnaw the very crust of the earth for nutriment.

How often, when we have been nearest each other bodily, have we really been farthest off! Our tongues were the witty foils with which we fenced each other off.

Rise free from care before the dawn and seek adventure. Let the noon find you by other lakes, and the night overtake thee everywhere at home. There are no larger fields than these, no worthier games than may here be played.