There are more consequences to a shipwreck than the underwriters notice.

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

I am struck by the simplicity of light in the atmosphere in the autumn, as if the earth absorbed none, and out of this profusion of dazzling light came the autumnal tints.

Is it not possible that an individual may be right and a government wrong? Are laws to be enforced simply because they were made? Or declared by any number of men to be good, if they are NOT good?

What a glorious time they must have in that wilderness, far from mankind and election day!

Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.

What demon possessed me that I behaved so well?