It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man.

Carlyle must undoubtedly plead guilty to the charge of mannerism. He not only has his vein, but his peculiar manner of working it.He has a style which can be imitated, and sometimes is an imitator of himself.

I feel as if my life had grown more outward when I can express it.

The culture of the hop ... so analagous to the culture and uses of the grape, may afford a theme for future poets.

While the very inhabitants of New England were thus fabling about the country a hundred miles inland, which was a terra incognitato them,... Champlain, the first Governor of Canada,... had already gone to war against the Iroquois in their forest forts, and penetrated to the Great Lakes and wintered there, before a Pilgrim had heard of New England.

Speech is for the convenience of those who are hard of hearing; but there are many fine things which we cannot say if we have to shout.

Truth is his inspirer, and earnestness the polisher of his sentences. He could afford to lose his Sharp's rifles, while he retained his faculty of speech,--a Sharp's rifle of infinitely surer and longer range.