The child should have the advantage of ignorance as well as of knowledge, and is fortunate if he gets his share of neglect and exposure.

If I am to be a thoroughfare, I prefer that it be of the mountain brooks, the Parnassian streams, and not the town sewers. There is inspiration, that gossip which comes to the ear of the attentive mind from the courts of heaven. There is the profane and stale revelation of the barroom and the police court. The same ear is fitted to receive both communications. Only the character of the hearer determines to which it shall be open, and to which closed.

To be right is more honorable than to be law abiding.

A man of rare common sense and directness of speech, as of action; a transcendentalist above all, a man of ideas and principles,Mthat was what distinguished him.

The whole tree itself is but one leaf, and rivers are still vaster leaves whose pulp is intervening earth, and towns and cities are the ova of insects in their axils.

If we see nature as pausing, immediately all mortifies and decays; but seen as progressing, she is beautiful.

In my short experience of human life, the outward obstacles, if there were any such, have not been living men, but the institutions of the dead.