The birds I heard today, which, fortunately, did not come within the scope of my science, sang as freshly as if it had been the first morning of creation.

He who rides and keeps the beaten track studies the fences chiefly.

Moral reform is the effort to throw off sleep.

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.

Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.

Every gazette brings accounts of the untutored freaks of the wind,--shipwrecks and hurricanes which the mariner and planter acceptas special or general providences; but they touch our consciences, they remind us of our sins. Another deluge would disgrace mankind.

The scenery when it is truly seen reacts on the life of the seer.