How far men go for the material of their houses! The inhabitants of the most civilized cities, in all ages, send into far, primitive forests, beyond the bounds of their civilization, where the moose and bear and savage dwell, for their pine boards for ordinary use. And, on the other hand, the savage soon receives from cities iron arrow-points, hatchets, and guns, to point his savageness with.

Nowadays almost all man's improvements, so called, as the building of houses and the cutting down of the forest and of all large trees, simply deform the landscape, and make it more and more tame and cheap.

To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning.

We are constantly invited to be who we are.

Where there is a lull of truth, an institution springs up. But the truth blows right on over it, nevertheless, and at length blows it down.

Individuals, like nations, must have suitable broad and natural boundaries, even a considerable neutral ground, between them.

That man is richest who's pleasure are cheapest.