I think it would be worth the while to introduce a school of children to such [an oak grove], that they may get an idea of the primitive oaks before they are all gone, instead of hiring botanists to lecture to them when it is too late.

Those who work much do not work hard.

Birds never sing in caves.

All expression of truth does at length take this deep ethical form.

The country is an archipelago of lakes,--the lake-country of New England.

I am a good horse to travel, but not from choice a roadster. The landscape-painter uses the figures of men to mark a road. He would not make that use of my figure.

Those whom we can love, we can hate; to others we are indifferent.