How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?

Where the most beautiful wild flowers grow, there mans spirit is fed and poets grow.

All nations love the same jests and tales, Jews, Christians, and Mahometans, and the same translated suffice for all.

Some show their kindness to the poor by employing them in their kitchens. Would they not be kinder if they employed themselves there?

All good things are cheap: all bad are very dear.

Who hears the fishes when they cry?

It cannot but affect our philosophy favorably to be reminded of these shoals of migratory fishes, of salmon, shad, alewives, marsh-bankers, and others, which penetrate up the innumerable rivers of our coast in the spring, even to the interior lakes, their scales gleaming in the sun; and again, of the fry which in still greater numbers wend their way downward to the sea.