Endeavor to live the life you have imagined.

Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape!

Whether we live by the seaside, or by the lakes and rivers, or on the prarie, it concerns us to attend to the nature of fishes, since they are not phenomena confined to certain localities only, but forms and phases of the life in nature universally dispersed. The countless shoals which annually coast the shores of Europe and America are not so interesting to the student of nature as the more fertile law itselffrom which it results that they may be found in water in so many places, in greater or lesser numbers.

They take great pride in making their dinner cost much; I take my pride in making my dinner cost so little.

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

The savage in man is never quite eradicated.

As a true patriot, I should be ashamed to think that Adam in paradise was more favorably situated on the whole than the backwoodsman in this country.