The music of all creatures has to do with their loves, even of toads and frogs. Is it not the same with man?

I had a classmate who fitted for college by the lamps of a lighthouse, which was more light, we think, than the University afforded.

Commonly men will only be brave as their fathers were brave, or timid.

Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.

The first sparrow of spring! The year beginning with younger hope than ever!... What at such a time are histories, chronologies, traditions, and all written revelations? The brooks sing carols and glees to the spring.

I fear that I have not got much to say about Canada, not having seen much; what I got by going to Canada was a cold.

We could not help being struck by the seeming, though innocent, indifference of Nature to these men's necessities, while elsewhereshe was equally serving others. Like a true benefactress, the secret of her service is unchangeableness. Thus is the busiest merchant, though within sight of his Lowell, put to pilgrim's shifts, and soon comes to staff and scrip and scallop-shell.