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.

There is a sort of homely truth and naturalness in some books which is very rare to find, and yet looks cheap enough. There may benothing lofty in the sentiment, or fine in the expression, but it is careless country talk. Homeliness is almost as great a merit in a book as in a house, if the reader would abide there. It is next to beauty, and a very high art. Some have this merit only.

There is no history of how bad became better.

No man loses ever on a lower level by magnanimity on a higher.

Nothing can be more useful to a man than a determination not to be hurried.

All good things are wild and free.

If within the sophisticated man there is not an unsophisticated one, then he is but one of the devil's angels.