Is the babe young? When I behold it, it seems more venerable than the oldest man.

A man's interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.

Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.

There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.

We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious.