When the reptile is attacked at one mouth of his burrow, he shows himself at another.

Every man is entitled to come to Cattle-Show, even a transcendentalist; and for my part I am more interested in the men than in the cattle.

What other words, we may almost ask, are memorable and worthy to be repeated than those which love has inspired? It is wonderful that they were ever uttered. They are few and rare indeed, but, like a strain of music, they are incessantly repeated and modulated by the memory. All other words crumble off with the stucco which overlies the heart. We should not dare to repeat these now aloud. We are not competent to hear them at all times.

You must converse much with the field and the woods if you would imbibe such health into your mind and spirit as you covet for your body

Death is beautiful when seen to be a law, and not an accident. It is as common as life.

But the eyes, though they are no sailors, will never be satisfied with any model, however fashionable, which does not answer all the requisitions of art.

Of a life of luxury the fruit is luxury, whether in agriculture, or commerce, or literature, or art.