Friendship is evanescent in every man's experience, and remembered like heat lightning in past summers.

The brave man braves nothing, nor knows he of his bravery.

Friends will be much apart. They will respect more each other's privacy than their communion.

The wonderful purity of nature at this season is a most pleasing fact.... In the bare fields and tinkling woods, see what virtue survives. In the coldest and bleakest places, the warmest charities still maintain a foothold.

Having each some shingles of thought well dried, we sat and whittled them.

The discoveries which we make abroad are special and particular; those which we make at home are general and significant. The further off, the nearer the surface. The nearer home, the deeper.

We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the New; but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough.