Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?

There is ripe fruit over your head.

An efficient and valuable man does what he can, whether the community pay him for it or not.

Go confidently ... Live the life that you imagined.

Really to see the sun rise or go down every day, so to relate ourselves to a universal fact, would preserve us sane forever.

Alas! the culture of an Irishman is an enterprise to be undertaken with a sort of moral bog hoe.

The most primitive places left with us are the swamps, where the spruce still grows shaggy with usnea.