When my hoe tinkled against the stones, that music echoed to the woods and the sky, and was an accompaniment to my labor which yielded an instant and immeasurable crop. It was no longer beans that I hoed, nor I that hoed beans; and I remembered with as much pity as pride, if I remembered at all, my acquaintances who had gone to the city to attend the oratorios.

Most people dread finding out when they come to die that they have never really lived.

With all your science can you tell me how it is, and when it is, that light comes into the soul?

There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.

I do not see why the schoolmaster should be taxed to support the priest, and not the priest the schoolmaster.

This is a delicious evening, when the whole body is one sense, and imbibes delight through every pore.

If we knew all the laws of Nature, we should need only fact, or the description of one actual phenomenon, to infer all the particular results at that point.