To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company, nature is medicinal and restores their tone..

It is defeat which educates us..

The secret of drunkenness is, that it insulates us in thought, whilst it unites us in feeling..

Nature paints the best part of a picture, carves the best parts of the statue, builds the best part of the house, and speaks the best part of the ora….

The restraining grace of common sense is the mark of all valid minds..

Where the banana grows man is sensual and cruel..

Housekeeping is not beautiful; it cheers and raises neither the husband, the wife, nor the child; neither the host nor the guest;it oppresses women. ….

Prudence is the virtue of the senses. It is the science of appearances. It is the outmost action of the inward life..

A man is reputed to have thought and eloquence; he cannot, for all that, say a word to his cousin or his uncle. They accuse his silence with as much ….

The trail of the serpent reaches into all the lucrative professions and practices of man. Each has its own wrongs. Each finds a tender and very intel….

Go out of the house to see the moon, and't is mere tinsel; it will not please as when its light shines upon your necessary journey..

The attraction and superiority of California are in its days. It has better days & more of them, than any other country..

We sell the thrones of angels for a short and turbulent pleasure..

Not gold but only men can makeA people great and strong;Men who for truth and honors sakeStand fast and suffer long. Brave men who work while others ….

A work of art is an abstract or epitome of the world. It is the result or expression of nature, in miniature. For, although the works of nature are i….

Go put your creed into your deed, Nor speak with double tongue..

No institution will be better than the institutor..

A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life..

With most men, scarce a link of memory holds yesterday and to-day together..

Neither is a dictionary a bad book to read. There is no can't in it, no excess of explanation, and it is full of suggestion, the raw material of poss….

There is nothing but is related to us, nothing that does not interest us,--kingdom, college, tree, horse, or iron show,--the rootsof all things are i….