Our manners have been corrupted by communication with the saints. Our hymn-books resound with a melodious cursing of God and enduring Him forever. One would say that even the prophets and redeemers had rather consoled the fears than confirmed the hopes of man. There is nowhere recorded a simple and irrepressible satisfaction with the gift of life, any memorable praise of God.

Oh to reach the point of death and realize one has not lived at all.

I begin to see an object when I cease to understand it.

Time cannot bend the line which God has writ.

Live free, child of the mist,- and with respect to knowledge we are allchildren of the mist.

A kitten is so flexible that she is almost double; the hind parts are equivalent to another kitten with which the fore part plays. She does not discover that her tail belongs to her till you tread upon it.

I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.