A sturdy lad from New Hampshire or Vermont who in turn tries all the professions, who teams it, farms it, peddles, keeps a school,... preaches, edits a newspaper, goes to Congress, buys a township, and so forth, in successive years, and always like a cat falls on his feet, is worth a hundred of these city dolls. He walks abreast with his days and feels no shame in not "studying a profession," for he does not postpone his life, but lives already.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The most interesting thing which I heard of, in this township of Hull, was an unfailing spring, whose locality was pointed out to ...me on the side of a distant hill, as I was panting along the shore, though I did not visit it. Perhaps, if I should go through Rome, it would be some spring on the Capitoline Hill I should remember the longest.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A township where one primitive forest waves above while another primitive forest rots below,--such a town is fitted to raise not o...nly corn and potatoes, but poets and philosophers for the coming ages. In such a soil grew Homer and Confucius and the rest, and out of such a wilderness comes the Reformer eating locusts and wild honey.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »