What a singular fact for an angel visitant to this earth to carry back in his note-book, that men were forbidden to expose their bodies under the severest penalties!

Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution.

The news we hear, for the most part, is not news to our genius. It is the stalest repetition.

We are ever dying to one world and being born into another.

Far travel, very far travel, or travail, comes near to the worth of staying at home.

Nature is full of genius, full of divinity.

I have thoroughly tried school-keeping, and found that my expenses were in proportion, or rather out of proportion, to my income,for I was obliged to dress and train, not to say think and believe, accordingly, and I lost my time into the bargain. As I did not teach for the good of my fellow-men, but simply for a livelihood, this was a failure. I have tried trade; but I found that it would take ten years to get under way in that, and that then I should probably be on my way to the devil. I was actually afraid that I might by that time be doing what is called a good business.