Farmers are respectable and interesting to me in proportion as they are poor.

As every season seems best to us in its turn, so the coming in of spring is like the creation of Cosmos out of Chaos and the realization of the Golden Age.

However much we admire the orator's occasional bursts of eloquence, the noblest written words are commonly as far behind or abovethe fleeting spoken language as the firmament with its stars is behind the clouds.

I bought me a spy-glass some weeks since. I buy but a few things, and those not till long after I begin to want them, so that when I do get them I am prepared to make a perfect use of them and extract their whole sweet.

It is not all books that are as dull as their readers.

Indeed, the Englishman's history of New England commences only when it ceases to be New France.

How imperceptibly the first springing takes place!