Being is the great explainer.

I pray that the life of this spring and summer may ever lie fair in my memory.

Within the memory of many of my townsmen the road near which my house stands resounded with the laugh and gossip of inhabitants, and the woods which border it were notched and dotted here and there with their little gardens and dwellings, though it was then much more shut in by the forest than now.

Don't be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.

The fishermen say that the "thundering of the pond" scares the fishes and prevents their biting.

We are all of us Apollos serving some Admetus.

He who is only a traveler learns things at second-hand and by the halves, and is poor authority. We are most interested when science reports what those men already know practically or instinctively, for that alone is a true humanity, or account of human experience.