The uses of travel are occasional, and short; but the best fruit it finds, when it finds it, is conversation; and this is a main function of life.

Who can . . . guess how much industry and providence and affection we have caught from the pantomime of brutes?

Thanks to the morning light, Thanks to the foaming sea, To the uplands of New Hampshire, To the green-haired forest free.

It is a greater joy to see the author's author, than himself.

Be lord of a day, through wisdom and justice, and you can put up your history books.

Friends are like spaghetti, they should stick together. The only way to have a friend is to be one.

If you follow the suburban fashion in building a sumptuous- looking house for a little money, it will appear to all eyes as a cheap, dear house.