The improved means to the unimproved end.

As far as our noblest hardwood forests are concerned, the animals, especially squirrels and jays, are our greatest and almost only benefactors. It is to them that we owe this gift. It is not in vain that the squirrels live in or about every forest tree, or hollow log, and every wall and heap of stones.

The moles nested in my cellar, nibbling every third potato, and making a snug bed even there of some hair left after plastering and of brown paper; for even the wildest animals love comfort and warmth as well as man, and they survive the winter only because they are so careful to secure them.

Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.

Time cannot bend the line which God has writ.

To be awake is to be alive.

A nation may be ever so civilized and yet lack wisdom.