It is quite affecting to observe how much the olive tree is to the country people. Its fruit supplies them with food, medicine and light; its leaves, winter fodder for the goats and sheep; it is their shelter from the heat and its branches and roots supply them with firewood. The olive tree is the peasant's all-in-all.

There are words which sever hearts more than sharp swords; there are words the point of which sting the heart through the course of a whole life.

At a certain depth all bosoms communicate, all hearts are one.

These Americans believe that everything is possible.

I have never as yet gone a step to see a literary lion; but I would go a considerable way to see Emerson, this pioneer in the moral forests of the New World, who applies his axe to the roots of the old trees to hew them down and to open the paths for new planting.

A fly is a very light burden; but if it were perpetually to return and settle on one's nose, it might weary us of our very lives.

North America is not altogether to blame with regard to her Indians. If the Indian had been more susceptible to higher culture, violence and arms would not have been used against him, as is now the case.