Advice is not a gift, but a debt that the old owe to the young.

A refined simplicity is the characteristic of all high bred deportment, in every country, and a considerate humanity should be the aim of all beneath it.

The novice in the military art flew from point to point, retarding his own preparations by the excess of his violent and somewhat distempered zeal; while the more practiced veteran made his arrangements with a deliberation that scorned every appearance of haste

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore.

Whenever the government of the United States shall break up, it will probably be in consequence of a false direction having been given to public opinion.

The listeners got some such insights into their past lives, as one gets into the darker parts of the woods, when a stray gleam of sunshine finds its way down to the roots of the trees.

Superstition is a quality that seems indigenous to the ocean.