Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance.

In the country, without any interference from the law, the agricultural life favors the permanence of families.

To be rich is to have a ticket of admission to the masterworks and chief men of each race. It is to have the sea, by voyaging; to visit the mountains, Niagara, the Nile, the desert, Rome, Paris, Constantinople: to see galleries, libraries, arsenals, manufactories.

Repose and cheerfulness is the badge of the gentleman; repose in energy.

Or whipping its rough surface for a trout.

If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.

You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.