I am reminded by my journey how exceedingly new this country still is. You have only to travel for a few days into the interior and back parts even of many of the old States, to come to that very America which the Northmen, and Cabot, and Gosnold, and Smith, and Raleigh visited.

From my experience with wild apples, I can understand that there may be reason for a savage's preferring many kinds of food which the civilized man rejects. The former has the palate of an outdoor man. It takes a savage or wild taste to appreciate a wild fruit.

Indeed, the Englishman's history of New England commences only when it ceases to be New France.

We live thick and are in each other's way, and stumble over one another, and I think we thus lose some respect for one another.

If we cannot sing of faith and triumph, we will sing our despair. We will be that kind of bird. There are day owls, and there arenight owls, and each is beautiful and even musical while about its business.

With wisdom we shall learn liberality.

Where the citizen uses a mere sliver or board, the pioneer uses the whole trunk of a tree.