There have been few things in my life which have had a more genial effect on my mind than the possession of a piece of land.

The clergy complain of the enormous spread of bold books, from the infidel tract to the latest handling of the miracle question.

I want to be a free rover on the breezy common of the universe.

His subject is the "Origin of Species," & not the origin of Organization; & it seems a needless mischief to have opened the latter speculation at all.

it matters infinitely less what we do than what we are.

Authorship has never been with me a matter of choice. I have not done it for amusement, or for money, or for fame, or for any reason but because I could not help it.

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.