Let us consider under what disadvantages Science has hitherto labored before we pronounce thus confidently on her progress.

The knowledge of an unlearned man is living and luxuriant like a forest, but covered with mosses and lichens and for the most part inaccessible and going to waste; the knowledge of the man of science is like timber collected in yards for public works, which still supports a green sprout here and there, but even this is liable to dry rot.

Nothing but great antiquity can make graveyards interesting to me. I have no friends there.

There they lived on, those New England people, farmer lives, father and grandfather and great-grandfather, on and on without noise, keeping up tradition, and expecting, beside fair weather and abundant harvests, we did not learn what. They were contented to live, since it was so contrived for them, and where their lines had fallen.

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

I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life.

I heartily accept the motto, "That government is best which governs least"; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically.