Instead of water we got here a draught of beer, a lumberer's drink, which would acclimate and naturalize a man at once,-which would make him see green, and, if he slept, dream that he heard the wind sough among the pines.

I make it my business to extract from Nature what ever nutriment she can furnish me.... I milk the sky and the earth.

To the virtuous man, the universe is the only sanctum sanctorum, and the penetralia of the temple are the broad noon of his existence.

Even the poor student studies and is taught only political economy, while that economy of living which is synonymous with philosophy is not even sincerely professed in our colleges. The consequence is, that while he is reading Adam Smith, Ricardo, and Say, he runs his father in debt irretrievably.

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

English sense has toiled, but Hindoo wisdom never perspired.

What demon possessed me that I behaved so well?