It might be seen by what tenure men held the earth. The smallest stream is mediterranean sea, a smaller ocean creek within the land, where men may steer by their farm bounds and cottage lights. For my own part, but for the geographers, I should hardly have known how large a portion of our globe is water, my life has chiefly passed within so deep a cove. Yet I have sometimes ventured as far as to the mouth of my Snug Harbor.

One must maintain a little bittle of summer, even in the middle of winter.

Morning is when I am awake and there is a dawn in me.

The faultfinder will find faults even in paradise.

It is a surprising and memorable, as well as valuable experience, to be lost in the woods any time.

Reform keeps many scores of newspapers in its service, but not one man.

Literary gentlemen, editors, and critics think that they know how to write, because they have studied grammar and rhetoric; but they are egregiously mistaken. The art of composition is as simple as the discharge of a bullet from a rifle, and its masterpieces imply an infinitely greater force behind them.