In a world of peace and love, music would be the universal language.

The young pines springing up in the corn-fields from year to year are to me a refreshing fact.

I thought, as I have my living to get, and have not eaten today, that I might go a- fishing. That's the true industry for poets. It is the only trade I have learned.

What is the price-current of an honest man and patriot to-day? They hesitate, and they regret, and sometimes they petition; but they do nothing in earnest and with effect. They will wait, well disposed, for others to remedy the evil, that they may no longer have it to regret. At most, they give only a cheap vote, and a feeble countenance and Godspeed, to the right, as it goes by them.

It seems as if the more youthful and impressible streams can hardly resist the numerous invitations and temptations to leave theirnative beds and run down their neighbors' channels.

The words of some men are thrown forcibly against you and adhere like burrs.

It often happens that a man develops a deeper love and friendship with his pet cat or dog than he does with most of the other humans in his life.