...A traveller is to be reverenced as such. His profession is the best symbol of our life. Going from - toward; it is the history of every one of us. It is a great art to saunter.

For my part, I could easily do without the post-office. I think that there are very few important communications made through it.

In the mythus a superhuman intelligence uses the unconscious thoughts and dreams of men as its hieroglyphics to address men unborn.

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

What a glorious time they must have in that wilderness, far from mankind and election day!

Every New Englander might easily raise all his own breadstuffs in this land of rye and Indian corn, and not depend on distant andfluctuating markets for them. Yet so far are we from simplicity and independence that, in Concord, fresh and sweet meal is rarely sold in the shops, and hominy and corn in a still coarser form are hardly used by any.

Wherever men have lived, there is a story to be told