The youth may build or plant or sail, only let him not be hindered from doing that which he tells me he would like to do.

As I love nature, as I love singing birds...I love thee, my friend.

The United States have a coffle of four millions of slaves. They are determined to keep them in this condition; and Massachusettsis one of the confederated overseers to prevent their escape.

We now no longer camp as for a night, but have settled down on earth and forgotten heaven.

What a pity if we do not live this short time according to the laws of the long time,--the eternal laws!

Left to herself, nature is always more or less civilized, and delights in a certain refinement; but where the axe has encroached upon the edge of the forest, the dead and unsightly limbs of the pine, which she had concealed with green banks of verdure, are exposed to sight.

The Universal Soul, as it is called, has an interest in the stacking of hay, the foddering of cattle, and the draining of peat-meadows.