I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.

Politics is but a narrow field.

Where on the globe can there be found an area of equal extent with that occupied by the bulk of our States, so fertile and so richand varied in its productions, and at the same time so habitable by the European, as this is?

If the fairest features of the landscape are to be named after men, let them be the noblest and worthiest men alone.

Books that are books are all that you want, and there are but a half dozen in any thousand.

I knew that the wall was the main thing in Quebec, and had cost a great deal of money.... In fact, these are the only remarkable walls we have in North America, though we have a good deal of Virginia fence, it is true.

The bluebird carries the sky on his back.