The future is too soon the past. So make perseverance your excellence and go confidently in the direction of your dreams.

We communicate like the burrows of foxes, in silence and darkness, under ground. We are undermined by faith and love.

The laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day.

What is a country without rabbits and partridges? They are among the most simple and indigenous animal products; ancient and venerable families known to antiquity as to modern times; of the very hue and substance of Nature, nearest allied to leaves and to the ground.

But government in which the majority rule in all cases can not be based on justice, even as far as men understand it.

Some creatures are made to see in the dark.

In a pure society, the subject of marriage would not be so often avoided,--from shame and not from reverence, winked out of sight,and hinted at only; but treated naturally and simply,--perhaps simply avoided like the kindred mysteries. If it cannot be spoken of for shame, how can it be acted of? But, doubtless, there is far more purity, as well as more impurity, than is apparent.