318 EARLY SPRING IN MASSACHUSETTS. 
Every man will be a poet if lie can, otherwise 
a philosopher or man of science. This proves 
the superiority of the poet. 
It is hard for a man to take money from his 
friends for f any service. This suggests how all 
men should be related. 
Ah ! when a man has traveled, and robbed 
the horizon of his native fields of its mystery 
and poetry, its indefinite promise, tarnished the 
blue of distant mountains with his feet, when 
he has done this, he may begin to think of an¬ 
other world. What is this longer to him ? . . . . 
At what an expense any valuable work is 
performed! at the expense of a life ! If you 
do one thing well, what else are you good for 
meanwhile ? 
