You may tell by looking at any twig of the forest, ay, at your very wood-pile, whether its winter is past or not.

The other side of the globe is but the home of our correspondent. Our voyaging is only great-circle sailing.

To what end do I lead a simple life at all, pray? That I may teach others to simplify their lives? - and so all our lives be simplified merely, like an algebraic formula? Or not, rather, that I may make use of the ground I have cleared to live more worthily and profitably?

The oldest, wisest politician grows not more human so, but is merely a gray wharf rat at last.

We are born as innocents. We are polluted by advice.

A taste for the beautiful is most cultivated out of doors

I confess that I have hitherto indulged very little in philanthropic enterprises.... While my townsmen and women are devoted in somany ways to the good of their fellows, I trust that one at least may be spared to other and less humane pursuits. You must have a genius for charity as well as for anything else. As for Doing-good, that is one of the professions which are full.