Most men would feel shame if caught preparing with their own hands precisely such a dinner, whether of animal or vegetable food, as is every day prepared for them by others. Yet till this is otherwise we are not civilized, and, if gentlemen and ladies, are not true men and women. This certainly suggests what change is to be made.

Our molting season, like that of the fouls, must be a crisis in our lives.

People seldom hit what they do not aim at.

How shall we account for our pursuits, if they are original? We get the language with which to describe our various lives out of acommon mint.

How long shall we sit in our porticoes practising idle and musty virtues, which any work would make impertinent? As if one were tobegin the day with long-suffering, and hire a man to hoe his potatoes; and in the afternoon go forth to practise Christian meekness and charity with goodness aforethought!

The boy gathers materials for a temple, and then when he is thirty, concludes to build a woodshed.

How important is a constant intercourse with nature and the contemplation of natural phenomena to the preservation of moral and intellectual health!