What is a country without rabbits and partridges? They are among the most simple and indigenous animal products; ancient and venerable families known to antiquity as to modern times; of the very hue and substance of Nature, nearest allied to leaves and to the ground.

When I would go a-visiting, I find that I go off the fashionable street,--not being inclined to change my dress,--to where man meets man, and not polished shoe meets shoe.

Almost any mode of observation will be successful at last, for what is most wanted is method.

Live free, child of the mist,- and with respect to knowledge we are allchildren of the mist.

Government never furthered any enterprise but by the alacrity with which it got out of its way.

The gross feeder is a man in the larva state; and there are whole nations in that condition, nations without fancy or imagination,whose vast abdomens betray them.

As the least drop of wine tinges the whole goblet, so the least particle of truth colors our whole life.