What is the singing of birds, or any natural sound, compared with the voice of one we love.

If a man believes and expects great things of himself, it makes no odds where you put him, or what you show him . . he will be surrounded by grandeur.

The necessity of labor and conversation with many men and things to the scholar is rarely well remembered.

That Cabot merely landed on the uninhabitable shore of Labrador gave the English no just title to New England, or to the United States generally, any more than to Patagonia.

One can hardly imagine a more healthful employment, or one more favorable to contemplation and the observation of nature.

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

There are other letters for the child to learn than those which Cadmus invented. The Spaniards have a good term to express this wild and dusky knolwedge, Grammatica parda, tawny grammar, a kind of mother-wit derived from that same leopard to which I have referred.