Who has smelled the woodsmoke at twilight, who has seen the campfire burning, who is quick to read the noises of the night?

Yet there be certain times in a young man’s life, when, through great sorrow or sin, all the boy in him is burnt and seared away so that he passes at one step to the more sorrowful state of manhood

A boy of to-day is affected by every change of tone and gust of opinion, so that he lies even when he desires to speak the truth.

Be slow to judge for we know little of what has been done and nothing of what has been resisted.

The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.

I am by nature a dealer in words, and words are the most powerful drug known to humanity.

The toad beneath the harrow knows Exactly where each tooth point goes.