Man wanted a home, a place for warmth, or comfort, first of physical warmth, then the warmth of the affections.

We are happy in proportion to the things we can do without.

"Hear! hear!" screamed the jay from a neighboring tree, where I had heard a tittering for some time, "winter has a concentrated and nutty kernel, if you know where to look for it."

There should always be some flowering and maturing of the fruits of nature in the cooking process.

This is one of those instances in which the individual genius is found to consent, as indeed it always does, at last, with the universal.

This American government - what is it but a tradition, though a recent one, endeavoring to transmit itself unimpaired to posterity, but each instant losing some of its integrity? It has not the vitality and force of a single living man; for a single man can bend it to his will.

There are many skillful apprentices, but few master workmen.