A man's whole life is taxed for the least thing well done. It is its net result.

And if the civilized man's pursuits are no worthier than the savage's, if he is employed the greater part of his life in obtaininggross necessaries and comforts merely, why should he have a better dwelling than the former?

Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient.

The forests are held cheap after the white pine has been culled out; and the explorers and hunters pray for rain only to clear theatmosphere of smoke.

In winter we lead a more inward life. Our hearts are warm and cheery, like cottages under drifts.

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.

The first sparrow of spring! The year beginning with younger hope than ever!