Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years.

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.

The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.

There is one consolation in being sick; and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better state than you were ever in before.

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.