Truths and roses have thorns about them.

What youth or maiden conspires with the wild luxuriant beauty of Nature? She flourishes most alone, far from the towns where they reside.

In society, in the best institutions of men, it is easy to detect a certain precocity. When we should still be growing children, we are already little men. Give me a culture which imports much muck from the meadows, and deepens the soil,--not that which trusts to heating manures, and improved implements, and modes of culture only!

There is such a thing as caste, even in the West; but it is comparatively faint; it is conservatism here. It says, forsake not your calling, outrage no institution, use no violence, rend no bonds; the State is thy parent. Its virtue or manhood is wholly filial.

Shall I not rejoice also at the abundance of the weeds whose seeds are the granary of the birds?

Some show their kindness to the poor by employing them in their kitchens. Would they not be kinder if they employed themselves there?

That man is richest who's pleasure are cheapest.