A Friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us.

Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution.

I have met with but one or two persons in the course of my life who understood the art of Walking, that is, of taking walks - who had the genius, so to speak, for sauntering: which word is beautifully derived "from idle people who roved about the country, in the Middle Ages, and asked for charity, under the pretense of going à la Sainte Terre," to the Holy Land, till the children exclaimed, "There goes a Sainte-Terrer," a Saunterer, a Holy-Lander.

All sound heard at the greatest possible distance produces one and the same effect, a vibration of the universal lyre, just as the intervening atmosphere makes a distant ridge of earth interesting to our eyes by the azure tint it imparts to it.

Cultivate the habit of early rising. It is unwise to keep the head long on a level with the feet.

That Cabot merely landed on the uninhabitable shore of Labrador gave the English no just title to New England, or to the United States generally, any more than to Patagonia.

The still youthful energies of the globe have only to be directed in their proper channel.