We discover a new world every time we see the earth again after it has been covered for a season with snow.

It is true, I never assisted the sun materially in his rising, but doubt not, it was of the last importance only to be present at it.

I have been breaking silence these twenty-three years and have hardly made a rent in it.

It is the art of mankind to polish the world, and every one who works is scrubbing in some part.

Let a slight snow come and cover the earth, and the tracks of men will show how little the woods and fields are frequented.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

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.