The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labor.
There are no grades of vanity; there are only grades of ability in concealing it.
The smallest minds and the selfishest souls and the cowardliest hearts that God makes.
Have a place for everything and keep the thing somewhere else. This is not advice, it is merely custom.
...one of the first achievements of the legislature was to institute a ten-thousand-dollar agricultural fair to show off forty dollars' worth of pumpkins in - however, the Territorial legislature was usually spoken of as the "asylum".
I admire him, I frankly confess it; and when his time is come I shall buy a piece of the rope for a keepsake.