My themes will not be far-fetched. I will tell of homely every-day phenomena and adventures.

All good things are wild and free.

The devil finds work for idle hands.

Keep up the fires of thought, and all will go well.

I think that the farmer displaces the Indian even because he redeems the meadow, and so makes himself stronger and in some respects more natural.

A man's ignorance sometimes is not only useful, but beautiful-while his knowledge, so called, is oftentimes worse than useless, besides being ugly.

Law never made men a whit more just.