Bread may not always nourish us; but it always does us good, it even takes stiffness out of our joints, and makes us supple and buoyant, when we knew not what ailed us, to recognize any generosity in man or Nature, to share any unmixed and heroic joy.

Do not engage to find things as you think they are.

He who hears the rippling of rivers in these degenerate days will not utterly despair.

Good for the body is the work of the body, good for the soul the work of the soul, and good for either the work of the other.

Let every one mind his own business, and endeavor to be what he was made.

One piece of good sense would be more memorable than a monument as high as the moon.

History has neither the venerableness of antiquity, nor the freshness of the modern. It does as if it would go to the beginning ofthings, which natural history might with reason assume to do; but consider the Universal History, and then tell us,--when did burdock and plantain sprout first?