Do not read the newspapers.

There must be the... generating force of Love behind every effort destined to be successful.

Though the hen should sit all day, she could lay only one egg, and, besides, would not have picked up materials for another.

He who cuts down woods beyond a certain limit exterminates birds.

One little bird not larger than a sparrow, it may have been a Phalarope, would alight on the turbulent surface where the breakers were five or six feet high, and float buoyantly there like a duck, cunningly taking to its wings and lifting itself a few feet through the air over the foaming crest of each breaker, but sometimes outriding safely a considerable billow which hid it some seconds, when its instinct told it that it would not break. It was a little creature thus to sport with the ocean, but it was as perfect a success in its way as the breakers in theirs.

Truth never turns to rebuke falsehood; her own straightforwardness is the severest correction.

When I would go a-visiting, I find that I go off the fashionable street,--not being inclined to change my dress,--to where man meets man, and not polished shoe meets shoe.