Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.

By my intimacy with nature I find myself withdrawn from man. My interest in the sun and the moon, in the morning and the evening, compels me to solitude.

What a glorious time they must have in that wilderness, far from mankind and election day!

The walls that fence our fields, as well as modern Rome, and not less the Parthenon itself, are all built of ruins.

The next day the Indian told me their name for this light,--artoosoq',--and on my inquiring concerning the will-o'-the-wisp, and the like phenomena, he said that his "folks" sometimes saw fires passing along at various heights, even as high as the trees, and making a noise. I was prepared after this to hear of the most startling and unimagined phenomena, witnessed by "his folks"; they are abroad at all hours and seasons in scenes so unfrequented by white men. Nature must have made a thousand revelations to them which are still secrets to us.

I lose my respect for the man who can make the mystery of sex the subject of a coarse jest, yet when you speak earnestly and seriously on the subject, is silent.

As they say in geology, time never fails, there is always enough of it, so I may say, criticism never fails.