They will wait, well disposed, for others to remedy evil, that they may no longer have have it to regret.

I have met with but one or two persons in the course of my life who have understood the art of Walking, that is, of taking walks,-who had a genius, so to speak, for sauntering.

Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one already.

Nature is goodness crystallized.

It is darker in the woods, even in common nights, than most suppose.

There may be an excess of cultivation as well as of anything else, until civilization becomes pathetic. A highly cultivated man,--all whose bones can be bent! whose heaven-born virtues are but good manners!

You must get your living by loving. But as it is said of the merchants that ninety-seven in a hundred fail, so the life of men generally, tried by this standard, is a failure, and bankruptcy may be surely prophesied.