Ex oriente lux may still be the motto of scholars, for the Western world has not yet derived from the East all the light which itis destined to receive thence.

Men have become the tools of their tools.

But why should not the New Englander try new adventures - not lay so much stress on his grain, his potato and grass crop, and his orchards - and raise other crops than these? Why concern ourselves so much about our beans for seed, and not be concerned at all about a new generation of men.

Inexpressibly beautiful appears the recognition by man of the least natural fact, and the allying his life to it.

A gun will give you the body, not the bird

The poet who walks by moonlight is conscious of a tide in his thought which is to be referred to lunar influence.

Every man has to learn the points of the compass again as often as he awakes, whether from sleep or any abstraction.