It Is Always Easier To

It Is Reported Of Margaret Fuller That She Said She Accepted The Universe. "gad, She'd Better!" Retorted Carlyle. Carlyle Himself Did Not Accept The Universe In A Very Whole-hearted Manner. Looking Up At The Midnight Stars, He Exclaimed: "a Sad Spectacle! If They Be Inhabited, What A Scope For Misery And Folly; If They Be Not Inhabited, What A Waste Of Space!"

Nature Exists For Man No More Than She Does For Monkeys, And Is As Regardless Of His Life Or Pleasure Or Success As She Is Of The Fleas. Her Waves Will Drown Him, Her Fire Burn Him, And Her Earth Devour Him, Her Storms And Lightning Smite Him, As If He Were Only A Dog.

Without Death And Decay, How Could Life Go On?

One May Return To The Place Of His Birth, He Cannot Go Back To His Youth.

The Bluebird Enjoys The Preeminence Of Being The First Bit Of Color That Cheers Our Northern Landscape. The Other Birds That Arrive About The Same Time--the Sparrow, The Robin, The Phoebe-bird--are Clad In Neutral Tints, Gray, Brown, Or Russet; But The Bluebird Brings One Of The Primary Hues And The Divinest Of Them All.