The cost of a thing is something called life which is given in exchange for it.

Why should we leave it to Harper & Brothers and Redding & Co. to select our reading?

If you see a man approaching you with the obvious intent of doing you good, you should run for your life.

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.

If the alternative is to keep all just men in prison, or give up war and slavery, the State will not hesitate which to choose.

Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.

There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.