What a healthy out-of-door appetite it takes to relish the apple of life, the apple of the world, then!

If Nature is our mother, then God is our father.

When a man truly commits, the universe will conspire to assure his success.

Measure your health by your sympathy with morning and spring. If there is no response in you to the awakening of nature -if the prospect of an early morning walk does not banish sleep, if the warble of the first bluebird does not thrill you -know that the morning and spring of your life are past. Thus may you feel your pulse.

I bought me a spy-glass some weeks since. I buy but a few things, and those not till long after I begin to want them, so that when I do get them I am prepared to make a perfect use of them and extract their whole sweet.

Even Nature is observed to have her playful moods or aspects, of which man sometimes seems to be the sport.

Those services which the community will most readily pay for, it is most disagreeable to render.