In the South the war is what A.D. is elsewhere; they date from it.

Word it as softly as you please, the spirit of patriotism is the spirit of the dog and wolf. The moment there is a misunderstanding about a boundary line or a hamper of fish or some other squalid matter, see patriotism rise, and hear him split the universe with is war-whoop. The spirit of patriotism being in its nature jealous and selfish, is just in man's line, it comes natural to him - he can live up to all its requirements to the letter; but the spirit of Christianity is not in its entirety possible to him.

There is a sumptuous variety about the New England weather... In the spring I have counted one hundred and twenty-six different kinds of weather inside of four and twenty hours.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

I have tried getting up early, and I have tried getting up late-and the latter agrees with me best.

Such is luck! And such the treatment which honest, good perservance gets so often at the hands of unfair and malicious Nature!

Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.