If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.

An efficient and valuable man does what he can, whether the community pay him for it or not.

The flowers of the apple are perhaps the most beautiful of any tree's, so copious and so delicious to both sight and scent.

There are two classes of authors: the one write the history of their times, the other their biography.

The schools begin with what they call the elements, and where do they end?

Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short.

That Cabot merely landed on the uninhabitable shore of Labrador gave the English no just title to New England, or to the United States generally, any more than to Patagonia.