The works of great poets have never been read by mankind, for only great poets can read them.

The scholar is not apt to make his most familiar experience come gracefully to the aid of his expression.

The true husbandman will cease from anxiety, as the squirrels manifest no concern whether the woods will bear chestnuts this year or not, and finish his labor with every day, relinquishing all claim to the produce of his fields, and sacrificing in his mind not only his first but last fruits also.

Then at night the general stillness is more impressive than any sound, but occasionally you hear the note of an owl farther or nearer in the woods, and if near a lake, the semihuman cry of the loons at their unearthly revels.

It is strange to talk of miracles, revelations, inspiration, and the like, as things past, while love remains.

Nature spontaneously keeps us well. Do not resist her!

There has always been the same amount of light in the world. The new and missing stars, the comets and eclipses, do not affect thegeneral illumination, for only our glasses appreciate them.