It is said that some Western steamers can run on a heavy dew, whence we can imagine what a canoe may do.

As with our colleges, so with a hundred "modern improvements"; there is an illusion about them; there is not always a positive advance. The devil goes on exacting a compound interest to the last for his early share and numerous succeeding investments in them.

A man's whole life is taxed for the least thing well done. It is its net result.

The first sparrow of spring! The year beginning with younger hope than ever!

The true reformer does not want time, nor money, nor coöperation, nor advice. What is time but the stuff delay is made of? And depend upon it, our virtue will not live on the interest of our money. He expects no income, but outgoes; so soon as we begin to count the cost, the cost begins. And as for advice, the information floating in the atmosphere of society is as evanescent and unserviceable to him as gossamer for clubs of Hercules.

Life consists with wildness. The most alive is the wildest. Not yet subdued to man, its presence refreshes him.

Unpremeditated music is the true gauge which measures the current of our thoughts; the very undertow of our life's stream.