Keep the town for occasions, but the habits should be formed in retirement.

We are as much strangers in nature, as we are aliens from God. We do not understand the notes of birds. The fox and the deer run away from us; the bear and tiger rend us. We do not know the uses of more than a few plants, as corn and the apple, the potato and the vine. Is not the landscape, every glimpse of which hath a grandeur, a face of him?

It is a capital blunder; as you discover, when another man recites his charities.

Shakespeare will never be made by the study of Shakespeare.

I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching. How far off, how cool, how chaste the persons look,begirt each one with a precinct or sanctuary!

Every man should let out all the length of all the reigns; should find or make a frank and healthy expression of what force and meaning is in him.

In old persons, when thus fully expressed, we often observe a fair, plump, perennial waxen complexion, which indicates that all the ferment of earlier days has subsided into serenity of thought and behavior.