We learn that God IS; that he is in me; and that all things are shadows of him.
Pride eradicates all vices but itself.
Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.
The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later.
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.
In the woods too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of life, is always a child. In the woods, is perpetual youth.