And what is a man without energy? Nothing - nothing at all.

The observance of Thanksgiving Day-as a function-has become general of late years. The Thankfulness is not so general. This is natural. Two-thirds of the nation have always had hard luck and a hard time during the year, and this has a calming effect upon their enthusiasm.

Switzerland is simply a large, lumpy, solid rock with a thin skin of grass stretched over it.

We can achieve what we can conceive and believe.

Alas! those good old days are gone, when a murderer could wipe the stain from his name and soothe his trouble to sleep simply by getting out his blocks and mortar and building an addition to a church.

It is human to exaggerate the merits of the dead.

My faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened.