Our village life would stagnate if it were not for the unexplored forests and meadows which surround it.

But, commonly, men are as much afraid of love as of hate.

How novel and original must be each new mans view of the universe - for though the world is so old - and so many books have been written - each object appears wholly undescribed to our experience - each field of thought wholly unexplored - the whole world is an America - a New World.

I was born upon thy bank, river, My blood flows in thy stream, And thou meanderest forever, At the bottom of my dream.

One can hardly imagine a more healthful employment, or one more favorable to contemplation and the observation of nature.

I love reform better than its modes.

Law never made men a whit more just.