All nations love the same jests and tales, Jews, Christians, and Mahometans, and the same translated suffice for all.

We must look a long time before we can see

I am struck by the fact that the more slowly trees grow at first, the sounder they are at the core, and I think that the same is true of human beings.

In the planting of the seeds of most trees, the best gardeners do no more than follow Nature, though they may not know it.

The journalists think that they cannot say too much in favor of such "improvements" in husbandry; it is a safe theme, like piety;but as for the beauty of one of these "model farms," I would as lief see a patent churn and a man turning it. They are, commonly, places merely where somebody is making money, it may be counterfeiting.

Books are for the most part willfully and hastily written, as parts of a system to supply a want real or imagined.

What a fool he must be who thinks that his El Dorado is anywhere but where he lives.