Nature, even when she is scant and thin outwardly, satisfies us still by the assurance of a certain generosity at the roots.

Any moral philosophy is exceedingly rare. This of Menu addresses our privacy more than most. It is a more private and familiar, and at the same time, a more public and universal word, than is spoken in parlor or pulpit nowadays.

This whole earth which we inhabit is but a point in space. How far apart, think you, dwell the most distant inhabitants of yonder star, the breadth of whose disk cannot be appreciated by our instruments?

What fire could ever equal the sunshine of a winter's day?

Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.

What a fool he must be who thinks that his El Dorado is anywhere but where he lives.

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