Nothing is worth reading that does not require an alert mind.

A well known American writer said once that, while everybody talked about the weather, nobody seemed to do anything about it.

Nature is entirely indifferent to any reform. She perpetuates a fault as persistently as a virtue.

The boy who expects every morning to open into a new world finds that today is like yesterday, but he believes tomorrow will be different.

Blessed be agriculture! if one does not have too much of it.

To poke a wood fire is more solid enjoyment than almost anything else in the world.

You want to hate somebody, if you can, just to keep your powers of discrimination bright, and to save yourself from becoming a mere mush of good-nature.