There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.

We cannot well do without our sins; they are the highway of our virtue.

Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.

This whole earth in which we inhabit is but a point is space.

History has neither the venerableness of antiquity, nor the freshness of the modern. It does as if it would go to the beginning ofthings, which natural history might with reason assume to do; but consider the Universal History, and then tell us,--when did burdock and plantain sprout first?

It is not for a man to put himself in such an attitude to society, but to maintain himself in whatever attitude he find himself through obedience to the laws of his being, which will never be one of opposition to a just government, if he should chance to meet with such.

Our village life would stagnate if it were not for the unexplored forests and meadows which surround it.