The law of work does seem utterly unfair-but there it is, and nothing can change it: the higher the pay in enjoyment the worker gets out of it, the higher shall be his pay in cash, too.

His head was an hour-glass; it could stow an idea, but it had to do it a grain at a time, not the whole idea at once.

In religion and politics, people's belief's and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination

It is a shameful thing to insult a child.

The xmas holidays have this high value: that they remind Forgetters of the Forgotten, & repair damaged relationships.

It was a splendid population - for all the slow, sleepy, sluggish-brained sloths stayed at home - you never find that sort of people among pioneers - you cannot build pioneers out of that sort of material. It was that population that gave to California a name for getting up astounding enterprises and rushing them through with a magnificent dash and daring and a recklessness of cost or consequences, which she bears unto this day - and when she projects a new surprise the grave world smiles as usual and says, "Well, that is California all over.

The physician who knows only medicine, knows not even medicine.