How long shall we sit in our porticoes practising idle and musty virtues, which any work would make impertinent? As if one were tobegin the day with long-suffering, and hire a man to hoe his potatoes; and in the afternoon go forth to practise Christian meekness and charity with goodness aforethought!

News Coverage!! As news expose rather than cover events.

Once I went so far as to slaughter a woodchuck which ravaged my bean-field,--effect his transmigration, as a Tartar would say,--and devour him, partly for experiment's sake; but though it afforded me a momentary enjoyment, notwithstanding a musky flavor, I saw that the longest use would not make that a good practice, however it might seem to have your woodchucks ready dressed by the village butcher.

I am alarmed when it happens that I have walked a mile into the woods bodily, without getting there in spirit.

The most primitive places left with us are the swamps, where the spruce still grows shaggy with usnea.

The broadest and most prevalent error requires the most disinterested virtue to sustain it.

I would stand upon facts.