That virtue we appreciate is as much ours as another s. We see so much only as we possess.

He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate.

The mission of men there seems to be, like so many busy demons, to drive the forest all out of the country, from every solitary beaver swamp and mountain-side, as soon as possible.

Any moral philosophy is exceedingly rare. This of Menu addresses our privacy more than most. It is a more private and familiar, and at the same time, a more public and universal word, than is spoken in parlor or pulpit nowadays.

I have not yet learned to live, that I can see, and I fear that I shall not very soon. I find, however, that in the long run things correspond to my original idea,--that they correspond to nothing else so much; and thus a man may really be a true prophet without any great exertion. The day is never so dark, nor the night even, but that the laws at least of light still prevail, and so may make it light in our minds if they are open to the truth.

I was not designed to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.

Age is no better, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not profited so much as it has lost.