In an ancient and dead language, any recognition of living nature attracts us. These are such sentences as were written while grass grew and water ran. It is no small recommendation when a book will stand the test of mere unobstructed sunshine and daylight.

One cannot too soon forget his errors and misdemeanors. To dwell long upon them is to add to the offense.

The most attractive sentences are not perhaps the wisest, but the surest and soundest.

The very willow-rows lopped every three years for fuel or powder, - and every sizable pine and oak, or other forest tree, cut down within the memory of man! As if individual speculators were to be allowed to export the clouds out of the sky, or the stars out of the firmament, one by one. We shall be reduced to gnaw the very crust of the earth for nutriment.

Fame itself is but an epitaph; as late, as false, as true.

Those undeserved joys which come uncalled and make us more pleased than grateful are they that sing.

Some creatures are made to see in the dark.