Nature is an admirable schoolmistress.

It is not worth while to go round the world to count the cats in Zanzibar.

The effect of a good government is to make life more valuable; of a bad one, to make it less valuable.

The stars are distant and unobtrusive, but bright and enduring as our fairest and most memorable experiences.

The poet will maintain serenity in spite of all disappointments. He is expected to preserve an unconcerned and healthy outlook over the world, while he lives.

The journalists think that they cannot say too much in favor of such "improvements" in husbandry; it is a safe theme, like piety;but as for the beauty of one of these "model farms," I would as lief see a patent churn and a man turning it. They are, commonly, places merely where somebody is making money, it may be counterfeiting.

In order to die, you must first have lived.