Sincerity is a great but rare virtue, and we pardon to it much complaining, and the betrayal of many weaknesses.

As I walked in the woods to see the birds and squirrels, so I walked in the village to see the men and boys; instead of the wind among the pines I heard the carts rattle. In one direction from my house there was a colony of muskrats in the river meadows; under the grove of elms and buttonwoods in the other horizon was a village of busy men, as curious to me as if they had been prarie-dogs, each sitting at the mouth of its burrow, or running over to a neighbor's to gossip. I went there frequently to observe their habits.

The universe expects every man to do his duty in his parallel of latitude.

The genuine remains of Ossian, or those ancient poems which bear his name, though of less fame and extent, are, in many respects,of the same stamp with the Iliad itself. He asserts the dignity of the bard no less than Homer, and in his era, we hear of no other priest than he.

I could not undertake to form a nucleus of an institution for the development of infant minds, where none already existed. It would be too cruel.

Our taste is too delicate and particular. It says nay to the poet's work, but never yea to his hope.

Wherever you have planted a seed, I am prepared to expect wonders.