The knowledge of an unlearned man is living and luxuriant like a forest, but covered with mosses and lichens and for the most part inaccessible and going to waste; the knowledge of the man of science is like timber collected in yards for public works, which still supports a green sprout here and there, but even this is liable to dry rot.

This fair homestead has fallen to us, and how little have we done to improve it, how little have we cleared and hedged and ditched! We are too inclined to go hence to a "better land," without lifting a finger, as our farmers are moving to the Ohio soil; but would it not be more heroic and faithful to till and redeem this New England soil of the world?

It is a surprising and memorable, as well as valuable experience, to be lost in the woods any time.

We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke strops our vice.

Can there be any greater reproach than an idle learning? Learn to split wood, at least.

I am sure that I never read any memorable news in a newspaper.

If you would be chaste, you must be temperate.