An orchard, good tillage, good grounds, seem a fixture, like a gold mine, or a river, to a citizen; but to a large farmer, not much more fixed than the state of the crop.

We prize books, and they prize them most who are themselves wise.

With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.

If we walk in the woods, we must feed mosquitoes.

I am ready to die out of nature, and be born again into this new yet unapproachable America I have found in the West.

Though I am weak, yet God, when prayed, Cannot withhold his conquering aid.

Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short in all management of human affairs.