As I drew a still fresher soil about the rows with my hoe, I disturbed the ashes of unchronicled nations who in primeval years lived under these heavens, and their small implements of war and hunting were brought to the light of this modern day.

I was born upon thy bank, river, My blood flows in thy stream, And thou meanderest forever, At the bottom of my dream.

The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the alms-house as brightly as from the rich man's abode.

It requires more than a day's devotion to know and to possess the wealth of a day.

Even in our democratic New England towns the accidental possession of wealth, and its manifestation in dress and equipage alone, obtain for the possessor almost universal respect.

We should endeavor practically in our lives to correct all the defects which our imagination detects.

The dry grasses are not dead for me. A beautiful form has as much life at one season as another.