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.

Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient.

Dreams are the touchstones of our character.

I am accustomed to think very long of going anywhere,--am slow to move. I hope to hear a response of the oracle first.

A perfectly healthy sentence, it is true, is extremely rare. For the most part we miss the hue and fragrance of the thought; as if we could be satisfied with the dews of the morning or evening without their colors, or the heavens without their azure.

Every tree sends its fibres forth in search of the Wild. The cities import it at any price. Men plow and sail for it. From the forest and wilderness come the tonics and barks which brace mankind.

He who receives an injury is to some extent an accomplice of the wrong-doer.