There have been some nations who could do nothing but construct tombs, and these are the only traces which they have left. They are the heathen.

I am accustomed to think very long of going anywhere,--am slow to move. I hope to hear a response of the oracle first.

The music of all creatures has to do with their loves, even of toads and frogs. Is it not the same with man?

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.

The phenomena of the year take place every day in a pond on a small scale. Every morning, generally speaking, the shallow water isbeing warmed more rapidly than the deep, though it may not be made so warm after all, and every evening it is being cooled more rapidly until the morning. The day is an epitome of the year. The night is the winter, the morning and evening are the spring and fall, and the noon is the summer. The cracking and booming of the ice indicate a change of temperature.

I would not have every man nor every part of a man cultivated, any more than I would have every acre of earth cultivated: part will be tillage, but the greater part will be meadow and forest, not only serving an immediate use, but preparing a mould against a distant future, by the annual decay of the vegetation which it supports.

The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.