I see in many places little barberry bushes just come up densely in the cow-dung, like young apple trees, the berries having been eaten by the cows. Here they find manure and an open space for the first year at least, when they are not choked by grass or weeds. In this way, evidently, many of these clumps of barberries are commenced.

A man's social and spiritual discipline must answer to his corporeal. He must lean on a friend who has a hard breast, as he wouldlie on a hard bed. He must drink cold water for his only beverage. So he must not hear sweetened and colored words, but pure and refreshing truths. He must daily bathe in truth cold as spring water, not warmed by the sympathy of friends.

A man's interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.

Justice is sweet and musical; but injustice is harsh and discordant.

Beware of any profession for which you must buy new clothes.

Roads are made for horses and men of business. I do not travel in them much.

A man is wise with the wisdom of his time only, and ignorant with its ignorance.