A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind.

I already, and for weeks afterward, felt my nature the coarser for this part of my woodland experience, and was reminded that ourlife should be lived as tenderly and daintily as one would pluck a flower.

We begin to praise when we begin to see a thing needs our assistance.

The hawk is aerial brother of the wave which he sails over and surveys, those his perfect air-inflated wings answering to the elemental unfledged pinions of the sea.

Let no one think that I do not love the old ministers. They were, probably, the best men in their generation, and they deserve that their biographies should fill the pages of the town histories. If I could but hear the "glad tidings" of which they tell, and which, perchance, they heard, I might write in a worthier strain than this.

Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.

For it matters not how small the beginning may seem to be: what is once well done is done forever.