We got together in a few days a company of the toughest old salts imaginable--not pretty to look at, but fellows, by their faces, of the most indomitable spirit.

The true wisdom is to be always seasonable, and to change with a good grace in changing circumstances.

The smack of California earth shall linger on the palate of your grandson.

Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.

He who has learned to love an art or science has wisely laid up riches against the day of riches.

The outer world, from which we cower into our houses, seemed after all a gentle habitable place; and night after night a man's bed, it seemed, was laid and waiting for him in the fields, where God keeps an open house.

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.