The most primitive places left with us are the swamps, where the spruce still grows shaggy with usnea.

He listens equally to the prayers of the believer and the unbeliever.

We seem to think that the earth must go through the ordeal of sheep-pasturage before it is habitable by man.

We cannot but pity the boy who has never fired a gun; he is no more humane, while his education has been sadly neglected.

Only that day dawns to which we are awake.

Men should not labor foolishly like brutes, but the brain and the body should always, or as much as possible, work and rest together, and then the work will be of such a kind that when the body is hungry the brain will be hungry also, and the same food will suffice for both; otherwise the food which repairs the waste energy of the overwrought body will oppress the sedentary brain, and the degenerate scholar will come to esteem all food vulgar, and all getting a living drudgery.

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.