I see in many places little barberry bushes just come up densely in the cow-dung, like young apple trees, the berries having been eaten by the cows. Here they find manure and an open space for the first year at least, when they are not choked by grass or weeds. In this way, evidently, many of these clumps of barberries are commenced.

I am a good horse to travel, but not from choice a roadster. The landscape-painter uses the figures of men to mark a road. He would not make that use of my figure.

What are men celebrating? They are all on a committee of arrangements, and hourly expect a speech from somebody. God is only the president of the day, and Webster is his orator.

A man might well pray that he may not taboo or curse any portion of nature by being buried in it.

Surely joy is the condition of life.

Few, if any, creatures are equally active all night.

Columbus felt the westward tendency more strongly than any before. He obeyed it, and found a New World for Castile and Leon.