That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.

We soon get through with Nature. She excites an expectation which she cannot satisfy. The merest child which has rambled into a copsewood dreams of a wildness so wild and strange and inexhaustible as Nature can never show him.

The country is an archipelago of lakes,--the lake-country of New England.

While my friend was my friend, he flattered me, and I never heard the truth from him. When he became my enemy, he shot it to me on a poisoned arrow.

At death our friends and relatives either draw nearer to us and are found out, or depart farther from us and are forgotten. Friends are as often brought nearer together as separated by death.

Of all ebriosity, who does not prefer to be intoxicated by the air he breathes?

I do not know at first what it is that harms me. The men and things of to-day are wont to be fairer and truer in to-morrow's memory.