There is no just and serene criticism as yet.

If the alternative is to keep all just men in prison, or give up war and slavery, the State will not hesitate which to choose.

My vicinity affords many good walks; and though for so many years I have walked almost every day, and sometimes for several days together, I have not yet exhausted them. An absolutely new prospect is a great happiness, and I can still get this any afternoon. Two or three hours' walking will carry me to as strange a country as I ever expect to see.

I have heard of a minister, who had been a fisherman, being settled in Bridgewater for as long a time as he could tell a cod froma haddock. Generous as it seems, this condition would empty most country pulpits forthwith, for it is long since the fishers of men were fishermen.

I have heard of many going astray even in the village streets, when the darkness was so thick you could cut it with a knife, as the saying is...

Gardening is civil and social, but it wants the vigor and freedom of the forest and the outlaw.

It is remarkable how many creatures live wild and free though secret in the woods.