The mode of clearing and planting is to fell the trees, and burn once what will burn, then cut them up into suitable lengths, rollinto heaps, and burn again; then, with a hoe, plant potatoes where you can come at the ground between the stumps and charred logs; for a first crop the ashes suffice for manure, and no hoeing being necessary the first year. In the fall, cut, roll, and burn again, and so on, till the land is cleared; and soon it is ready for grain, and to be laid down.

How few things can a man measure with the tape of his understanding ; How many greater things might he be seeing in the meanwhile.

As for health, consider yourself well.

It is pleasant to have been to a place the way a river went.

There is a chasm between knowledge and ignorance which the arches of science can never span.

The tavern will compare favorably with the church.

I suppose you think that persons who are as old as your father and myself are always thinking about very grave things, but I know that we are meditating the same old themes that we did when we were ten years old, only we go more gravely about it.