How many things are now at loose ends! Who knows which way the wind will blow tomorrow?

What avail all your scholarly accomplishments and learning, compared with wisdom and manhood? To omit his other behavior, see whata work this comparatively unread and unlettered man wrote within six weeks. Where is our professor of belles-lettres, or of logic and rhetoric, who can write so well?

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

So far as inland discovery was concerned, the adventurous spirit of the English was that of sailors who land but for a day, and their enterprise the enterprise of traders.

Certainly there is not the fight recorded in Concord history, at least, if in the history of America, that will bear a moment's comparison with this, whether for the numbers engaged in it, or for the patriotism and heroism displayed.

I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.

We can never have enough of nature. We must be refreshed by the sight of inexhaustible vigor.