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.

There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.

My themes will not be far-fetched. I will tell of homely every-day phenomena and adventures.

I love a broad margin to my life. Sometimes, in a summer morning, having taken my accustomed bath, I sat in my sunny doorway from sunrise til noon, rapt in a revery.

Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?

Where on the globe can there be found an area of equal extent with that occupied by the bulk of our States, so fertile and so richand varied in its productions, and at the same time so habitable by the European, as this is?