The flowers of the apple are perhaps the most beautiful of any tree's, so copious and so delicious to both sight and scent.

"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."

We discover a new world every time we see the earth again after it has been covered for a season with snow.

When a noble deed is done, who is likely to appreciate it? They who are noble themselves.

I wish my countrymen to consider that whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can ever commit the leastact of injustice against the obscurest individual without having to pay the penalty for it. A government which deliberately enacts injustice, and persists in it, will at length even become the laughing-stock of the world.

I have now a library of nearly nine hundred volumes, over seven hundred of which I wrote myself.

Rivers must have been the guides which conducted the footsteps of the first travelers. They are the constant lure, when they flow by our doors, to distant enterprise and adventure, and, by a natural impulse, the dwellers on their banks will at length accompany their currents to the lowlands of the globe, or explore at their invitation the interior of continents.