The interminable forests should become graceful parks, for use and delight.

Cut these words and they would bleed; they are vascular and alive.

As men get on in life, they acquire a love for sincerity, and somewhat less solicitude to be lulled or amused. In the progress ofthe character, there is an increasing faith in the moral sentiment, and a decreasing faith in propositions.

All vigor is contagious.

A mind does not receive truth as a chest receives jewels that are put into it, but as the stomach takes up food into the system. It is no longer food, but flesh, and is assimilated. The appetite and the power of digestion measure our right to knowledge. He has it who can use it. As soon as our accumulation overruns our invention or power to use, the evils of intellectual gluttony begin,— congestion of the brain, apoplexy and strangulation.

No hope so bright but is the beginning of its own fulfilment.

'Well,' said Red Jacket [to someone complaining that he had not enough time], 'I suppose you have all there is.'