All sound heard at the greatest possible distance produces one and the same effect, a vibration of the universal lyre, just as the intervening atmosphere makes a distant ridge of earth interesting to our eyes by the azure tint it imparts to it.

Blessed are they who never read a newspaper, for they shall see Nature, and through her, God.

Ancient history has an air of antiquity. It should be more modern. It is written as if the specator should be thinking of the backside of the picture on the wall, or as if the author expected that the dead would be his readers, and wished to detail to them their own experience.

It is remarkable how many creatures live wild and free though secret in the woods.

You must not blame me if I do talk to the clouds.

It would be better if there were but one inhabitant to a square mile, as where I live.

A man must find his occasions in himself, it is true. The natural day is very calm, and will hardly reprove his indolence.