Nevertheless, likin' is a tender plant, and never thrives long when watered with tears. Let the 'arth around your married happiness be moistened by the dews of kindness.
But even the falsest of men pay so much homage to truth as to seem its votaries.
It's wisest always to be so clad that our friends need not ask us for our names.
Principles become modified in practise by facts.
In America the taint of sectarianism lies broad upon the land. Not content with acknowledging the supremacy as the Deity, and with erecting temples in his honor, where all can bow down with reverence,...
Mendacity and vulgarity can only permanently affect those who resort to their use. (Ch 17)
Content is a great fortifier of good looks.
Tis open before your eyes," returned the scout; "and he who knows it is not a niggard of its use. I have heard it said that there are men who read in books to convince themselves there is a God. I kno...
Men are seldom struck by incongruities in their appearance any more than their own conduct.
Happy hunting-grounds;
Is it justice to make evil, and then punish for it?
CHAPTER IX.
You are young, and rich, and have friends, and at such an age I know it is hard to die!
All greatness of character is dependent on individuality. The man who has no other existence than that which he partakes in common with all around him, will never have any other than any existence of...
Exper'ence
Your young white, who gathers his learning from books and can measure what he knows by the page, may conceit that his knowledge, like his legs, outruns that of his fathers’, but, where experience is t...
History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness.
Every trail has its end, and every calamity brings its lesson!
We are all human, and all do wrong.
They linger yet, Avengers of their native land.—Gray