There are sure to be two prescriptions diametrically opposite.

I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid, and I have not the least doubt that it will stand a good while.

Paper is cheap, and authors need not now erase one book before they write another. Instead of cultivating the earth for wheat andpotatoes, they cultivate literature, and fill a place in the Republic of Letters. Or they would fain write for fame merely, as others actually raise crops of grain to be distilled into brandy.

Letter-writing too often degenerates into a communicating of facts, and not of truths; of other men's deeds and not our thoughts.What are the convulsions of a planet, compared with the emotions of the soul? or the rising of a thousand suns, if that is not enlightened by a ray?

I was born upon thy bank, river, My blood flows in thy stream, And thou meanderest forever, At the bottom of my dream.

Let a slight snow come and cover the earth, and the tracks of men will show how little the woods and fields are frequented.

That man is richest who's pleasure are cheapest.