Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years.

Let your walks now be a little more adventurous.

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.

The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.

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

Bribed with a little sunlight and a few prismatic tints, we bless our Maker, and stave off his wrath with hymns.

The wonderful purity of nature at this season is a most pleasing fact.... In the bare fields and tinkling woods, see what virtue survives. In the coldest and bleakest places, the warmest charities still maintain a foothold.