Nature is a rag merchant, who works up every shred and ort and end into new creations.

No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature.

A farm is a good thing, when it begins and ends with itself, and does not need a salary, or a shop, to eke it out.

I learn immediately from any speaker how much he has already lived, through the poverty or the splendor of his speech. Life lies behind us as the quarry from whence we get tiles and copestones for the masonry of today. This is the way to learn grammar. Colleges and books only copy the language which the field and the work-yard made.

Every mind must know the whole lesson for itself,-must go over the whole ground. What it does not see, what it does not live, it will not know.

The nonconformist and the rebel say all manner of unanswerable things against the existing republic, but discover to our sense no plan of house or state of their own.

What potent blood hath modest May.