In Adam's fall We sinned all. In the new Adam's rise, We shall all reach the skies.

The culture of the hop ... so analagous to the culture and uses of the grape, may afford a theme for future poets.

I am too easily contented with a slight and almost animal happiness. My happiness is a good deal like that of the woodchucks.

You speak of poverty and dependence. Who are poor and dependent? Who are rich and independent? When was it that men agreed to respect the appearance and not the reality?

Nothing more strikingly betrays the credulity of mankind than medicine. Quackery is a thing universal, and universally successful. In this case it becomes literally true that no imposition is too great for the credulity of men.

When the ground was partially bare of snow, and a few warm days had dried its surface somewhat, it was pleasant to compare the first tender signs of the infant year just peeping forth with the stately beauty of the withered vegetation which had withstood the winterdecent weeds, at least, which widowed Nature wears.

Nature is as well adapted to our weakness as to our strength.