There are two classes of authors: the one write the history of their times, the other their biography.

I think that I love society as much as most, and am ready enough to fasten myself like a bloodsucker for the time to any full-blooded man that comes in my way. I am naturally no hermit, but might possibly sit out the sturdiest frequenter of the bar-room, if my business called me thither.

Heaven is not one of your fertile Ohio bottoms, you may depend on it.

There is always room and occasion enough for a true book on any subject; as there is room for more light the brightest day and more rays will not interfere with the first.

Instead of the scream of a fish hawk scaring the fishes, is heard the whistle of the steam-engine, arousing a country to its progress.

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

Where the most beautiful wild flowers grow, there mans spirit is fed and poets grow.