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.

Keep innocency, and take heed unto the thing that is right, for that shall bring a man peace at the last.

it is a testament to the strength and purity of the democratic sentiment in the country, that the republic has not been overthrown by its newspapers.

Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.

Wherever the appearance of a conventional aristocracy exists in America, it must arise from wealth, as it cannot from birth. An aristocracy of mere wealth is vulgar everywhere. In a republic, it is vulgar in the extreme.

I am sure that no traveler seeing things through author spectacles can see them as they are.