If you see a man approaching you with the obvious intent of doing you good, you should run for your life.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

I am engaged to Concord and my own private pursuits by 10,000 ties, and it would be suicide to rend them.

I have an immense appetite for solitude, like an infant for sleep, and if I don't get enough for this year, I shall cry all the next.

As long as I have the friendship of the sesasons life will never be a burden to me.

What the banker sighs for, the meanest clown may have-leisure and a quiet mind.

Then at night the general stillness is more impressive than any sound, but occasionally you hear the note of an owl farther or nearer in the woods, and if near a lake, the semihuman cry of the loons at their unearthly revels.