As for Clothing, to come at once to the practical part of the question, perhaps we are led oftener by the love of novelty and a regard for the opinions of men, in procuring it, than by a true utility.

The animal merely makes a bed, which he warms with his body, in a sheltered place; but man, having discovered fire, boxes up someair in a spacious apartment, and warms that.... Thus he goes a step or two beyond instinct, and saves a little time for the fine arts.

What a healthy out-of-door appetite it takes to relish the apple of life, the apple of the world, then!

Morning brings back the heroic ages.

I could not undertake to form a nucleus of an institution for the development of infant minds, where none already existed. It would be too cruel.

For in the wood these golden days Some leaf obeys its Maker's call. And through their hollow aisles it plays With delicate touch the prelude of the Fall.

The fire is the main comfort of the camp, whether in summer or winter