How to extract its honey from the flower of the world. That is my everyday business. I am as busy as a bee about it. I ramble over fields on that errand and am never so happy as when I feel myself heavy with honey and wax. I am like a bee searching the livelong day for the sweets of nature.

Long as I have lived, and many blasphemers as I have heard and seen, I have never yet heard or witnessed any direct and consciousblasphemy or irreverence; but of indirect and habitual, enough. Where is the man who is guilty of direct and personal insolence to Him that made him?

Men are in the main alike, but they were made several in order that they might be various. If a low use is to be served, one man will do nearly quite as well as another; if a high one, individual excellence is to be regarded.

It is said that some Western steamers can run on a heavy dew, whence we can imagine what a canoe may do.

The chief want, in every state that I have been into, was a high and earnest purpose in its inhabitants.

Spring-an experience in immortality.

Good for the body is the work of the body, good for the soul the work of the soul, and good for either the work of the other.