The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labor.

To my mind that literature is best and most enduring which is characterized by a noble simplicity.

Nothing seems to please a fly so much as to be taken for a currant; and if it can be baked in a cake and palmed off on the unwary, it dies happy.

It has always been a peculiarity of the human race that it keeps two sets of morals in stock-the private and the real, and the public and the artificial.

Until I came to New Mexico, I never realized how much beauty water adds to a river.

A sound heart is a surer guide than an ill-trained conscience.

When you got to the table you couldn't go right to eating, but you had to wait for the widow to tuck down her head and grumble a little over the victuals, though there warn't really anything the matter with them. That is, nothing only everything was cooked by itself. In a barrel of odds and ends it is different; things get mixed up, and the juice kind of swaps around, and the things go better.