Doubtless the world is quite right in a million ways; but you have to be kicked about a little to convince you of the fact.

Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.

Since hate poisons the soul, don't cherish enmities or grudges: avoid people who make you unhappy.

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.

To believe in immortality is one thing, but it is first needful to believe in life.

I am not afraid of the truth, if any one could tell it me, but I am afraid of parts of it impertinently uttered.

There is no music like a little river's . . . It takes the mind out-of-doors . . . and . . . it quiets a man down like saying his prayers.