One can hardly imagine a more healthful employment, or one more favorable to contemplation and the observation of nature.

A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.

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

Our poets have sung of wine, the product of a foreign plant which commonly they never saw, as if our own plants had no juice in them more than the singers.

At the extreme north, the voyagers are obliged to dance and act plays for employment.

I lingered most about the fireplace, as the most vital part of the house.

Time cannot bend the line which God has writ.