As in many countries precious metals belong to the crown, so here more precious natural objects of rare beauty should belong to the public.

Simplicity is the peak of civilization.

That is mere sentimentality that lies abed by day and thinks itself white, far from the tan and callus of experience.

At the extreme north, the voyagers are obliged to dance and act plays for employment.

It is not worth the while to live by rich cookery.

It is rare that we use our thinking faculty as resolutely as an irishman his spade. To please our friends and relatives we turn out our silver ore in cartloads, while we neglect to workour mines of gold known only to ourselves far up in the Sierras, where we pulled up a bush in our mountain walk, and saw the glittering treasure. Let us return thither. Let it be the price of our freedom to make that known.

In August, the large masses of berries, which, when in flower, had attracted many wild bees, gradually assumed their bright velvety crimson hue, and by their weight again bent down and broke their tender limbs.