The fire is the main comfort of the camp, whether in summer or winter, and is about as ample at one season as at another. It is as well for cheerfulness as for warmth and dryness.

Fishing has been styled 'a contemplative man's recreation,' ... and science is only a more contemplative man's recreation.

Nature, even when she is scant and thin outwardly, satisfies us still by the assurance of a certain generosity at the roots.

Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.

Where there is a lull in truth an institution springs up.

Look not to legislatures and churches for your guidance, nor to any soulless incorporated bodies, but to inspirited or inspired ones.

Surely the writer is to address a world of laborers, and such therefore must be his own discipline.