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.

I have made a short excursion into the new world which the Indian dwells in, or is. He begins where we leave off.

Nothing is so much to be feared as fear.

Not till we are completely lost, or turned round, do we appreciate the vastness and strangeness of Nature.

To say that God has given a man many and great talents frequently means that he has brought his heavens down within reach of his hands.

If Columbus was the first to discover the islands, Americus Vespucius and Cabot, and the Puritans, and we their descendants, havediscovered only the shores of America.

We waded so gently and reverently, or we pulled together so smoothly, that the fishes of thought were not scared from the stream, nor feared any angler on the bank, but came and went grandly, like the clouds which came and went on the western sky, and the mother-o'-pearl flocks which sometimes form and dissolve there.