That Cabot merely landed on the uninhabitable shore of Labrador gave the English no just title to New England, or to the United States generally, any more than to Patagonia.

Even the poor student studies and is taught only political economy, while that economy of living which is synonymous with philosophy is not even sincerely professed in our colleges. The consequence is, that while he is reading Adam Smith, Ricardo, and Say, he runs his father in debt irretrievably.

Shall I not rejoice also at the abundance of the weeds whose seeds are the granary of the birds?

How many things there are concerning which we might well deliberate whether we had better know them.

As long as I have the friendship of the sesasons life will never be a burden to me.

Every man has to learn the points of the compass again as often as he awakes, whether from sleep or any abstraction.

If you are chosen town clerk, forsooth, you cannot go to Tierra del Fuego this summer; but you may go to the land of infernal fire nevertheless.