Voting for the right is doing nothing for it.

And so the seasons went rolling on into summer, as one rambles into higher and higher grass.

I find it so difficult to dispose of the few facts which to me are significant, that I hesitate to burden my attention with thosewhich are insignificant, which only a divine mind could illustrate. Such is, for the most part, the news in newspapers and conversation.

Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it?

One can hardly imagine a more healthful employment, or one more favorable to contemplation and the observation of nature.

When we come down into the distant village, visible from the mountain-top, the nobler inhabitants with whom we peopled it have departed, and left only vermin in its desolate streets. It is the imagination of poets which puts those brave speeches into the mouths of their heroes.

Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it.