The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us.
I have a room all to myself; it is nature.
All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune.
We are all of us more or less active physiognomists.
When some of my friends have asked me anxiously about their boys, whether they should let them hunt, I have answered yes-- remembering that it was one of the best parts of my education-- make them hunters.
Instead of the scream of a fish hawk scaring the fishes, is heard the whistle of the steam-engine, arousing a country to its progress.