If not against us, nature is not for us.

It is a thing which every sensible American should learn from every sensible Englishman, that glare and glitter, gimcracks and gewgaws, are not indispensable to domestic solacement.

In their precise tracings-out and subtle causations, the strongest and fieriest emotions of life defy all analytical insight.

A man can be honest in any sort of skin.

If you begin the day with a laugh, you may, nevertheless, end it with a sob and a sigh.

Amity itself can only be maintained by reciprocal respect, and true friends are punctilious equals.

Take almost any path you please, and ten to one it carries you down in a dale, and leaves you there by a pool in the stream. There is magic in it. Let the most absent-minded of men be plunged in his deepest reveries--stand that man on his legs, set his feet a-going, and he will infallibly lead you to water, if water there be in all that region. Should you ever be athirst in the great American desert, try this experiment, if your caravan happen to be supplied with a metaphysical professor. Yes, as every one knows, meditation and water are wedded for ever.