How can you expect the birds to sing when their groves are cut down?

The gross feeder is a man in the larva state; and there are whole nations in that condition, nations without fancy or imagination,whose vast abdomens betray them.

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.

All good things are cheap: all bad are very dear.

Give me the poverty that enjoys true wealth.

Having each some shingles of thought well dried, we sat and whittled them.

The nonchalance and dolce-far-niente air of nature and society hint at infinite periods in the progress of mankind.